1 They were of all ages, though mostly men and women.
2 They were in very deed men and women of sorrow, and acquainted with grief.
3 Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine.
4 The allowance of the slave children was given to their mothers, or the old women having the care of them.
5 There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women had these.
6 I had always lived with my grandmother on the outskirts of the plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women.
7 The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal.
8 There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination.
9 I have known him to cut and slash the women's heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at his cruelty, and would threaten to whip him if he did not mind himself.
10 She was a woman of noble form, and of graceful proportions, having very few equals, and fewer superiors, in personal appearance, among the colored or white women of our neighborhood.
11 I honor those good men and women for their noble daring, and applaud them for willingly subjecting themselves to bloody persecution, by openly avowing their participation in the escape of slaves.
12 I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael's, and Baltimore.