Also several mulatto girls of rare personal qualities,--two of these very superior.
Among the above slaves advertised for sale were Agnes and her two daughters.

Ere young Linwood left the quadroon that evening, he promised her that he would become her purchaser, and make her free and her own mistress.
Mr.Graves had long been considered not only an excellent and upright citizen of the first standing among the whites, but even the slaves regarded him as one of the kindest of masters.

Having inherited his slaves with the rest of his property, he became possessed of them without any consultation or wish of his own.

He would neither buy nor sell slaves, and was exceedingly careful, in letting them out, that they did not find oppressive and tyrannical masters.

No slave speculator ever dared to cross the threshold of this planter of the Old Dominion.