Chapter 2 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Black and Education

The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food,
eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn
meal. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair
of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for
winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of
shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars.