Facts about highwaymen

Ah. You must be thinking about the poem, The Highwayman. I learned this in the 7th grade. Well, if you are thinking of this poem, highwaymen were robbers who would basically mug people and travel by horseback. When I say "mug", I literally mean it... Those guys were thieves.  

More than 4 million enslaved hunan beings in the south and they touched every aspect of the regions social, political and economic life.