Owing to the causes I have mentioned, the decline is so rapid and marked, in almost every point of view, that the children of slaveholders are universally inferior to themselves, mentally, morally, physically, as well as pecuniarily, especially so in the latter point of view; and this is a matter of most vital concern to the slaves.
The young master not being able to own as many slaves as his father, usually works what he has more severely, and being more liable to embarrassment, the slaves' liability to be sold at an early day is much greater.

For the same reason, slaves have a deep interest, generally, in the marriage of a young mistress.

Very generally the daughters of slaveholders marry inferior men; men who seek to better their own condition by a wealthy connection.

The slaves who pass into the hands of the young master has had some chance to become acquainted with his character, bad as it may be; but the young mistress brings her slaves a new, and sometimes an unknown master.

Sometimes these are the sons of already broken down slaveholders.