half-clothe

Updated: August 10, 2026

Now it is plainly for the interest of the "owners" of these slaves, or of those who have the charge of them, to treat than cruelly, to overwork, under-feed, half-clothe, half-shelter, poison, or kill outright, the aged, the broken down, the incurably diseased, idiots, feeble infants, most of the blind, some deaf and dumb, &c.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4