The Central of Georgia Railroad improved its service in 1858 by instituting a negro sleeping car [42]--an accommodation which apparently no railroad has furnished in the post-bellum decades.
[Footnote 40: _Federal Union_ (Milledgeville, Ga.), Dec.

31, 1844.] [Footnote 41: Andrews, _Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade_, p.171.] While the traders were held in common contempt, the incidents and effects of their traffic were viewed with mixed emotions.

Its employment of shackles was excused only on the ground of necessary precaution.

Its breaking up of families was generally deplored, although it was apologized for by thick-and-thin champions of everything Southern with arguments that negro domestic ties were weak at best and that the separations were no more frequent than those suffered by free laborers at the North under the stress of economic necessity.

Its drain of money from the districts importing the slaves was regretted as a financial disadvantage.