William Ladd, Esq., Minot, Maine.  President of the American Peace Society, formerly a slaveholder in Florida.

“The dwellings of the slaves were palmetto huts, built by themselves of stakes and poles, thatched with the palmetto leaf.  The door, when they had any, was generally of the same materials, sometimes boards found on the beach.  They had no floors, no separate apartments, except the guinea negroes had sometimes a small inclosure for their ‘god house.’  These huts the slaves built themselves after task and on Sundays.”

Rev. Joseph M. Sadd, Pastor Pres.  Church, Castile, Greene Co., N.Y., who lived in Missouri five years previous to 1837.

“The slaves live generally in miserable huts, which are without floors, and have a single apartment only, where both sexes are herded promiscuously together.”

Mr. George W. Westgate, member of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Illinois, who has spent a number of years in slave states.

“On old plantations, the negro quarters are of frame and clapboards, seldom affording a comfortable shelter from wind or rain; their size varies from 8 by 10, to 10 by 12, feet, and six or eight feet high; sometimes there is a hole cut for a window, but I never saw a sash, or glass in any.  In the new country, and in the woods, the quarters are generally built of logs, of similar dimensions.”

Mr. Cornelius Johnson, a member of a Christian Church in Farmington, Ohio.  Mr. J. lived in Mississippi in 1837-8.

“Their houses were commonly built of logs, sometimes they were framed, often they had no floor, some of them have two apartments, commonly but one; each of those apartments contained a family.  Sometimes these families consisted of a man and his wife and children, while in other instances persons of both sexes, were thrown together without any regard to family relationship.”

The Western Medical Reformer, in an article on the Cachexia Africana by a Kentucky physician, thus speaks of the huts of the slaves.

“They are crowded together in a small hut, and sometimes having an imperfect, and sometimes no floor, and seldom raised from the ground, ill ventilated, and surrounded with filth.”

Mr. William Leftwich, a native of Virginia, but has resided most of his life in Madison, Co.  Alabama.

“The dwellings of the slaves are log huts, from 10 to 12 feet square, often without windows, doors, or floors, they have neither chairs, table, or bedstead.”

Reuben L. Macy of Hudson, N.Y. a member of the Religious Society of Friends.  He lived in South Carolina in 1818-19.

“The houses for the field slaves were about 14 feet square, built in the coarsest manner, with one room, without any chimney or flooring, with a hole in the roof to let the smoke out.”

Mr. Lemuel Sapington of Lancaster, Pa. a native of Maryland, formerly a slaveholder.