No. 48. Catharine, field hand, 30 years old. Catharine is a very strong
and healthy-looking woman. If this pair of giants had the liberty to
keep the earnings of their own labor for themselves, they would surely
make the money for which they are sold now,--those $2800,--in less than
three years. But their bodies belong to another, because the laws of
the Slave States regard men and women of color as beasts of burden.