The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States

by Winfield H. Collins

[196] Stuart: Three Years in North America, Vol. II., p. 103. He says it cost $35 per year to feed and clothe an adult negro a year. Must cost half that much for a young one.

[197] Proceedings and Debates of Virginia State Con. Convention, 1829-30, p. 178.

[198] Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, Vol. VI., p. 473.

[199] Andrews: Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade, p. 119.

[200] Chambers: Am. Slavery and Color, p. 194.

[201] Ibid., p. 148.

[202] Census of 1830.

[203] Census of 1840.

[204] We do not know why unless it is because slaves being higher more care was taken of them, which as a consequence caused them to live longer.

[205] For data upon which these arguments are based see Census Reports of 1830, 1840, and 1860.