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for me to buy the negro and take the risk. That risk was a great one. The boy was confined for 3 months & had to be see almost daily--It's true that I was profited by the trade but it was a perfectly fair transaction. Mad at his own earnest repeated solicitations against my advice as a Physician and Frend. I would not give $450 for another negro in the same condition.
Mr. Blackwell has no one to blame but himself about it. It was on account of her prejudice against the negro (justly or not entertained I do not know) & her declaration that the negro should never come home again which excited John so much that he determined to sell him. I regret that I should think it necessary to give you this [disapecable?] detail of which every word is true, but that your Aunt Mary is entirely in the wrong I leave to her own kindred. I also feel a great desire to stand fairly in your estimation. I shall be very happy to