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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: Punishment

     

                     According to abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, the following testimony came from Reverend Henry T. Hopkins, a minister at the Primitive Methodist Church in New York City. From 1821 to 1826, Hopkins had lived in Portsmouth, Virginia, a small city just east of Southampton County.

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                     An old colored man, the slave of Mr. Emerson, of Portsmouth, Virginia, being under deep conviction for sin, went into the back part of his master's garden to pour out his soul in prayer to God. For this offence he was whipped thirty-nine lashes.

     

     

    From Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Antislavery Society, 1839), 88.