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1 , JYo. AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES OF * AMERICAN SLAVERY. [The apologists of Southern slavery are accustomed to brand every picture of slavery and its fruits as exaggeration or calumny.—The stated in these sheets are capable of satisfactory and legal facts proof. In cases where, from personal considerations, the names of persons or places are suppressed, the circumstances and au­ thority on which they rest will be fully made known, on appli­ cation at the office of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, No. 46 Washington Street, Boston.] AGED SLAVES. No one can examine the subject of slavery, without being often led to reflect on the probable sufferings of aged slaves. If it be unwise for infirm parents to become entirely dependent on the generosity of their own chil­ dren, what can we reasonably expect of human nature, intrusted with despotic power over a poor, despised slave, too feeble to labor, and too old to bring any thing in the market? Will money or care be expended on the worn out human machine, when it can no longer be kept in such repair as to prove profitable to the owners ? An ordinary knowledge of human nature, and the most authentic accounts of slavery, alike prove that ...