My experience contradicts this.

The men and the women slaves on Col.

Lloyd's farm, received, as their monthly{78} allowance of food, eight pounds of pickled pork, or their equivalent in fish.

The pork was often tainted, and the fish was of the poorest quality--herrings, which would bring very little if offered for sale in any northern market.

With their pork or fish, they had one bushel of Indian meal--unbolted--of which quite fifteen per cent was fit only to feed pigs.