He told me that he had been brought up in the business, but he thought it a pity.
"No buyers were present, so there was no examination that was painful to look upon.
"The slaves were intelligent-looking, and very healthy and neat in appearance.

Those who belonged to one owner were dressed alike--some in striped pink and white dresses, others in plaid, all a little showy.

The men were in thick trousers and coarse dark-blue jackets.
"April 5.

We have been this morning to a negro church.

We found it a miserable-looking house, mostly unpainted and unplastered, but well filled with the swarthy faces.