No. 48. Catharine, field hand, 30 years old. Catharine is a very strong and healthy-looking woman. If this pair of giants had the liberty to keep the earnings of their own labor for themselves, they would surely make the money for which they are sold now,—those $2800,—in less than three years. But their bodies belong to another, because the laws of the Slave States regard men and women of color as beasts of burden.
No. 49. Dennis, field hand, (suffers from hernia,) fifty-five years—
No. 50. Isabella, thirty-one years. Price for these poor human beings, $1350.
No. 51. Amos, field hand, a very smart and intelligent-looking boy of sixteen, brings $1450, or one hundred dollars more than the poor couple sold before him.
No. 52. Fielding, field hand, 26 years, and—
No. 53. Nelly, also a field hand, 30 years, both bring $2200.
No. 54. George Sunday, field hand, age 22, for $1400.
No. 55. Gay, 30, and
No. 56. Hannah, 35, together with
No. 57. Ellen, her daughter, a young girl of 13 years. Both Hannah and Ellen are crying very hard, because they are perhaps to be sold to a ruffian who made his fortune by swindling, and who will pay now $2300 for honest people, who have never done the least harm to anybody, who are faithful Christians, and whose hearts are to be broken by an act worthy of any blood-thirsty barbarians!