"The allowance of provisions for the slaves, is one peck of corn, in the grain, per week."
Rev. Horace Moulton, a Methodist Clergyman of Marlboro, Mass., who lived five years in Georgia.
"In Georgia the planters give each slave only one peck of their gourd seed corn per week, with a small quantity of salt."
Mr. F.C. Macy, Nantucket, Mass., who resided in Georgia in 1820.
"The food of the slaves was three pecks of potatos a week during the potato season, and one peck of corn, during the remainder of the year."
Mr. Nehemiah Caulkins, a member of the Baptist Church in Waterford, Conn., who resided in North Carolina, eleven winters.
"The subsistence of the slaves, consists of seven quarts of meal or eight quarts of small rice for one week!"
William Savery, late of Philadelphia, an eminent Minister of the Society of Friends, who travelled extensively in the slave states, on a Religious Visitation, speaking of the subsistence of the slaves, says, in his published Journal,
"A peck of corn is their (the slaves,) miserable subsistence for a week."
The late John Parrish, of Philadelphia, another highly respected Minister of the Society of Friends, who traversed the South, on a similar mission, in 1804 and 5, says in his "Remarks on the slavery of Blacks;"