160, 161; Robert Russell, _North America_ (Edinburgh, 1857), p.

207.] The caravans of migrating planters were occasionally described by travelers in the period.

Basil Hall wrote of one which he overtook in South Carolina in 1828: "It ...

did not consist of above thirty persons in all, of whom five-and-twenty at least were slaves.

The women and children were stowed away in wagons, moving slowly up a steep, sandy hill; but the curtains being let down we could see nothing of them except an occasional glance of an eye, or a row of teeth as white as snow.