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    TREATMENT OF SLAVES

     

    Food

    "A Virginian"

     

    Clothing

    George A. Avery

    Samuel Ellison

    Lemuel Sapington

     

    Housing

    Lemuel Sapington

     

    Punishment

    John H. Curtiss

    Samuel Ellison

    Rev. Henry T Hopkins

    William Poe

    L. Turner

     

    Labor Conditions

    Gurdon Chapman

    Lemuel Sapington

    William S. Drewry

     

    Sale and Capture

    Slave Auctions

    Slave for Sale

    Slaves Wanted

    Capture

     

    General Treatment

    John Brown

    William S. Drewry

     

    Continue to SLAVE RESISTANCE

    Treatment of Slaves: Clothing

     

                     According to abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, Samuel Ellison was a Quaker who had lived in Southampton County before moving to Marlborough, Ohio.

     

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                     I knew a Methodist who was the owner of a number of slaves. The children of both sexes, belonging to him, under twelve years of age, were entirely destitute of clothing. I have seen an old man compelled to labor in the fields, not having rags enough to cover his nakedness.

     

     

    From Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Antislavery Society, 1839), 42.