No. 65. Richard, field hand, age 19, sold for exactly $1000.
No. 66. John, plowman, 32 years, and
No. 67. Nancy, field hand, about 30. Highest bid for both, $1750.
No. 68. Davy, 58 years, and
No. 69. Polly, 50 years old, both sold for $500.
Five hundred dollars is a fair price for a horse, or for a valuable mule. But here we can perceive neither horses nor mules, but human beings, who, without regard to color or standing, await, like us, the hour of their call from this world to the judgment seat. Those two grey heads, of very humble looking persons, have been placed upon the auction-stand or platform. For forty years they have devoted their strength to the father of their master, and to him. They have gathered forty harvests for him—yes, for him who is now selling them for $500! They brought him ten times as much as he is now getting for their worn-out bodies.
No. 70. Frank Fortier, field hand, 36 years, and
No. 71. Fanny, 26 years, both were sold for $1600.
No. 72. James Pegram, field hand, 37 years.
No. 73. Johanna, 16 years.