It was a sorrowful sight.

Some were praying, some crying, and they all had a look of extreme wretchedness.

It is an awful thing to a Virginia slave to be sold for the Alabama and Mississippi country.

I have known some of them to die of grief, and others to commit suicide, on account of it.
[Footnote A: Bacon Tait's advertisement of "new and commodious buildings" for the keeping of negroes, situated at the corner of 15th and Carey streets, appears in the Richmond Whig of Sept.

1896 .-- EDITOR.] In my seventeenth year, I was married to a girl named Harriet, belonging to John Gatewood, a planter living about four miles from Mr.Pleasant.
She was about a year younger than myself--was a tailoress, and used to cut out clothes for the hands.
We were married by a white clergyman named Jones; and were allowed to or three weeks to ourselves, which we spent in visiting and other amusements.
The field hands are seldom married by a clergyman.