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American Negro Slavery

CHAPTER III
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The draught animals comprised about 80 mules and 140 oxen.
Among the 528 slaves all told--284 males and 244 females--74, equally divided between the sexes, were fifty years old and upwards.

If the new negroes, virtually all of whom were doubtless in early life, be subtracted from the gross, it appears that one-fifth of the seasoned stock had reached the half century, and one-eighth were sixty years old and over.

This is a good showing of longevity.
About eighty of the seasoned women were within the age limits of childbearing.

The births recorded were on an average of nine for each of the five years covered, which was hardly half as many as might have been expected under favorable conditions.

Special entry was made in 1795 of the number of children each woman had borne during her life, the number of these living at the time this record was made, and the number of miscarriages each woman had had.


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