They had always been house slaves.

One was aged about twenty-two, and the other about fourteen.

They were a fragile couple by nature, and the treatment they received was enough to break down the constitution of a horse.

Of all the dejected, emaciated, mangled and excoriated creatures I ever saw, those two girls--in the refined, church going and Christian city of Baltimore were the most deplorable.

Of stone must that heart be made, that could look upon Henrietta and Mary, without being sickened to the core with sadness.