The allowance of food and clothing for the little children, was committed to their mothers, or to the older slavewomen having the care of them.

Children who were unable to work in the field, had neither shoes, stockings, jackets nor trowsers given them.

Their clothing consisted of two coarse tow-linen shirts--already described--per year; and when these failed them, as they often did, they went naked until the next allowance day.

Flocks of little children from five to ten years old, might be seen on Col.

Lloyd's plantation, as destitute of clothing as any little heathen on the west coast of Africa; and this, not merely during the summer months, but during the frosty weather of March.