ten o'clock
In a small room near the `` office '' are to be seen any number of iron collars , hobbles , handcuffs , thumbscrews , cowhides , whips , chains , gags , and yokes . A back yard inclosed by a high wall looks something like the playground attached to one of our large New England schools , and in which are rows of benches and swings . Attached to the back premises is a good-sized kitchen , where two old Negresses are at work , stewing , boiling , and baking , and occasionally wiping the sweat from their furrowed and swarthy brows . The slave-trader Walker , on his arrival in New Orleans , took up his quarters at this slave pen with his gang of human cattle : and the morning after , at ten o'clock , they were exhibited for sale . There , first of all , was the beautiful Althesa , whose pale countenance and dejected look told how many sad hours she had passed since parting with her mother at Natchez . There was a poor woman who had been separated from her husband and five children . Another woman , whose looks and manner were expressive of deep anguish , sat by her side .