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| 11 | 16 | The only sanitation facility was an open View more quotes about metal">metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
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| 11 | 13 | Some of these numbers referred to the occupants within the cage, but other numbers were coded to instruct the keepers in such matters as diet, special precautions, date of the lot's acquisition, and its intended disposition. |
| 11 | 14 | Some of the numbers had been scratched out, and others had been hammered into the plates, which were changed from time to time. |
| 11 | 15 | The pens seemed humid and, though we were below ground, warm from the heat of the bodies. |
| 11 | 16 | The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
| 11 | 17 | There was a feed trough at one side of each cage and a low watering pan on the other, both filled by means of tubes from the catwalk. |
| 11 | 18 | The cages of female slaves were mixed in with those of the male slaves, presumably on no other basis than what cage happened to be empty at a given time. |
| 11 | 19 | The female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck. |