years; average, 33 years.
Time since they obtained their freedom, from 4 weeks to 27
years; average, 9 years.
Number of heads of families who have purchased themselves, 36
Whole amount paid for themselves $21,515.00
Average price $597.64
Number of children which the same families have already
purchased 14
Whole amount paid for these children $2,425.75
Average price $173.27
Total amount paid for these parents and children $23,940.75
Number of parents still in slavery 16
" of husbands or wives 7
" of children 35
" of brothers and sisters 144

These districts were visited without the least reference to their
being exhibited separately. If they give a fair specimen of the
whole population (and we believe that to be a fact), then we have
the following results: 1,129 of the Colored population of
Cincinnati have been in slavery; 476 have purchased themselves,
at the total expense of $215,522.04, averaging for each, $452.77;
163 parents are still in slavery, 68 husbands and wives, 346
children, 1,579 brothers and sisters.

There are a large number in the city who are now working out
their own freedom--their free papers being retained as security.
One man of our acquaintance has just given his master seven notes
of one hundred dollars each, one of which he intends to pay every
year, till he has paid them all; his master promises then to give
him his free papers. After paying for himself, he intends to buy
his wife and then his children. Others are buying their husbands
or wives, and others again their parents or children. To show
that on this subject they have sympathies like other people, we
will state a single fact. A young man, after purchasing himself,
earned three hundred dollars. This sum he supposed was sufficient
to purchase his aged mother, a widow, whom he had left in slavery
five years before, in Virginia. Hearing that she was for sale, he
started immediately to purchase her. But, after travelling