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SALE OF AGED
NEGROES.
"I was staying a few days
at Winnsboro' South Carolina, and, on the sale day, had
the curiosity to walk to the auction stand, where I saw
an aged negro and his wife exposed for sale. they
were almost worn out with stripes and hard usage; and
the woolly heads of both were nearly white. The
old negro was more than 70, his wife a year or two
younger. They were knocked down for 13 dollars.
This sum appears, indeed, trifling as the price of two
human beings; but the fact is, they would (commercially
speaking) have been dear at a gift." - Report of an
English Traveller.
A WOMAN SOLD FOR A JACKASS. - "Mr. Moore,
sometime ago, was a citizen of Todd County, Kentucky.
He was, and is sitll a local preacher in the M. E.
Church, in good standing. A short time before he
left Todd County, he sold a woman for a jackass.
He then traded the jackass to Mr. J. H. Robins of
Trigg County, Kentucky, for a house and some land in
Woodford County, Illinois. Moore told
Robins that he gave a woman and a child for the
jack; but when Robins inquired into the matter,
he found that Moore traded on Saturday, and that
the child was born on Monday afterwards! So the
child was sold for a jackass, before it was born, and by
a professed preacher of the Gospel!! - Western
Citizen.
"A person informs the
Christian people of St. Louis, that he will sell a
superior Maltese Jack, and receive in payment
goods or NEGROES! Said Jack is said to be 14 hands
high, and therefore, in the estimation of his owner,
equivalent to several of God's living images. 'How
much better is a man than a sheep?' asked he who lived
and died for man. How much better is an ass than a
man? asks the owner of the one, of the owner of
the other, in the market of a Christian city."
Leeds Anti-slavery
Series. No. 17.
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5,
Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends'
Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
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