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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: Food

     

                     Abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld and his wife and coauthor Angelina Grimké included in their book American Slavery As It Is this second-hand testimony from a former Virginian who wished to remain anonymous and passed on this recollection to a minister in Quincy, Illinois, the Reverend C. S. Renshaw.

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                     The slaves are generally allowanced: a pint of corn meal and a salt herring is the allowance, or in lieu of the herring a "dab" of fat meat of about the same value. I have known the sour milk, and clauber to be served out to the hands, when there was an abundance of milk on the plantation. This is a luxury not often afforded.

     

     

    From Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Antislavery Society, 1839), 30.