"In North Carolina, the legal standard of food for a slave must not be less than a _quart of corn per day_. In Louisiana the legal standard is one barrel of Indian corn--or the equivalent thereof in rice, beans or other grain, and a pint of salt, every month." "The quantity allowed by custom," said T. S. Clay of Georgia, "is a peck of corn per week." When they return to their miserable huts at night, they find not there the means of comfortable rest, but on the cold ground they must lie, without covering, and shiver while they slumber. "The clothing of slaves by day, and their covering by night, are inadequate either for comfort or decency, in any or most of the slaveholding States." (_Elliott._) It is notorious that slaves, on large plantations especially, are miserably fed, clothed and lodged, and during busy seasons of the year, most unmercifully worked. 6. _Slavery abandons its victims to unbridled lust._ Against a master's lusts a slave has no protection. It is an established principle of the slave code that the _testimony_ of a slave against a white person cannot be received in a court of justice. A slave woman who may be abused cannot resort to the law. To whom can she appeal? To God only. The master may torture her in any way, so that he take not her life, in order to _force_ a compliance with his base designs! "A very beautiful girl belonging to the estate of John French, a deceased gambler of New Orleans, was sold a few days since, for the round sum of _seven thousand dollars_! An ugly old bachelor, named Gouch, was the purchaser. The _Picayune_ says that she was remarkable for her beauty and intelligence; and that there was considerable strife as to who should be the purchaser." (_Elliott._) Any one can understand why that beautiful, intelligent slave girl brought SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! She was bought for a sacrifice to lust! And the law gave her no protection. It required her to submit unresistingly to the will of her owner and that owner was a base libertine! 7. _Slavery exposes its victims to the fury of unrestrained passion._ A master in a violent passion may fall upon his slave, and beat him unmercifully without the slightest provocation and _the slave has no redress_. "The master is not liable for an assault and battery committed upon the person of his slave." (_Wheeler._) A Methodist minister, Rev. J. Boucher, relates the following incident: