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TREATMENT OF SLAVES
Food
"A Virginian"
Clothing
George A. Avery
Samuel Ellison
Lemuel Sapington
Housing
Lemuel Sapington
Punishment
John H. Curtiss
Samuel Ellison
Rev. Henry T Hopkins
William Poe
L. Turner
Labor Conditions
Gurdon Chapman
Lemuel Sapington
William S. Drewry
Sale and Capture
Slave Auctions
Slave for Sale
Slaves Wanted
Capture
General Treatment
John Brown
William S. Drewry
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Treatment of Slaves: Clothing
According to Theodore Dwight Weld, Lemuel Sapington had been born in Maryland and was a slave trader in southern Virginia. He had since given up the slave trading business and moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Their clothing is often made by themselves after night, though sometimes assisted by the old women, who are no longer able to do out-door work; consequently it is harsh and uncomfortable. And I have very frequently seen those who had not attained the age of twelve years go naked.
From Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Antislavery Society, 1839), 41.
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