Note 13 — Chapter III · VIRGINIA.—GLIMPSES BY RAILROAD.

A slaveholder writing to me with regard to my cautious statements on this subject, made in the Daily Times, says:—“In the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, as much attention is paid to the breeding and growth of negroes as to that of horses and mules. Further South, we raise them both for use and for market. Planters command their girls and women (married or unmarried) to have children; and I have known a great many negro girls to be sold off, because they did not have children. A breeding woman is worth from one-sixth to one-fourth more than one that does not breed.”