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We propose to show under this head, that the clothing of the slaves by day, and their covering by night, are inadequate, either for comfort or decency. Hon. T.T. Bouldin, a slave-holder, and member of Congress from Virginia in a speech in Congress, Feb. 16, 1835. Mr.
Bouldin said "he knew that many negroes had died from exposure to weather," and added, "they are clad in a flimsy fabric, that will turn neither wind nor water." George Buchanan, M.D., of Baltimore, member of the American Philosophical Society, in an oration at Baltimore, July 4, 1791. "The slaves, naked and starved, often fall victims to the inclemencies of the weather." Wm.
Hylton et al., Curtis, Decisions, i. 164-229. Wirt, 316-318. Ibid. 312. Edward Fontaine, MS. Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 221. Wirt, 312. Wirt, 320-321; 368-369. McRee, Life of Iredell, ii. 394. Memorandum of J. W. Bouldin, in Hist. Mag. for 1873, 274-275. Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 222. Judge Spencer Roane, MS. McRee, Life of Iredell, ii. 395. Wirt, 75-76. J. W. Alexander, Life of A. Alexander, 191-192.
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