Coroner’s inquest on Harney’s murdered female slave;
Man-stealing encouraged by law;
Trial for a murdered slave;
Female slave whipped to death, and during the torture delivered of
a dead infant;
Slaves murdered;
Slave driven to death;
Slaves killed with impunity;
George, a slave, chopped piece-meal, and burnt by Lilburn Lewis;
Retributive justice in the awful death of Lilburn Lewis;
Trial of Isham Lewis, a slave murderer.
PERSONAL NARRATIVES.—PART III.
NARRATIVE OF REV. FRANCIS HAWLEY;
Plantations;
Overseers;
No appeal from Overseers to Masters.
CLOTHING;
Nudity of slaves.
WORK;
Cotton-picking;
Mothers of slaves;
Presbyterian minister killed his slave;
Methodist colored preacher hung;
Licentiousness;
Slave-traffic;
Night in a Slaveholder’s house;
Twelve slaves murdered;
Slave driving Baptist preachers;
Hunting of runaways slaves;
Amalgamation.
TESTIMONY OF REUBEN C. MACY, AND RICHARD MACY.
Whipping of slaves.
Testimony of Eleazer Powel;
Overseer of Hinds Stuart, shot a slave
for opposing the torture of
his female companion.
TESTIMONY OF REV. WILLIAM SCALES.
Three slaves murdered with impunity;
Separation of lovers, parents, and children.
TESTIMONY OF JOS. IDE. Mrs. T.
a Presbyterian kind woman-killer;
Female slave whipped to death;
Food;
Nakedness of slaves;
Old man flogged after praying for his
tyrant;
Slave-huts not as comfortable as pig-sties.
TESTIMONY OF REV. PHINEAS SMITH.
Texas;
Suit for the value of slave ‘property’;
Anson Jones, Ambassador from Texas;
No trial or punishment for the murder
of slaves;
Slave-hunting in Texas;
Suffering drives the slaves to despair
and suicide.
TESTIMONY OF PHIL’N BLISS.
Ignorance of northern citizens respecting
slavery;
Betting upon crops;
Extent and cruelty of the punishment of
slaves;
Slaveholders excuse their cruelties by
the example of Preachers, and
professors of religion, and
Northern citizens;
Novel torture, eulogized by a professor
of religion;
Whips as common as the plough;
Ladies use cowhides, with shovel
and tongs.
TESTIMONY OF REV. WM. A. CHAPIN.
Slave-labor;
Starvation of slaves;
Slaves lacerated, without clothing, and
without food.
TESTIMONY OF T.M. MACY.
Cotton plantations on St. Simon’s
Island;
Cultivation of rice;
No time for relaxation;
Sabbath a nominal rest;
Clothing;
Flogging.
TESTIMONY OF F.C. MACY.
Slave cabins;
Food;
Whipping every day;
Treatment of slaves as brutes;
Slave-boys fight for slaveholder’s
amusement;
Amalgamation common.