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you must purchase 2 Negroes for a Dollar
the price of Cotton is on the rise and should
it continue slaves will sell well next fall
I do not believe there will be much money
in the purchasing market this season the Greater
part of the Traders are hung up with paper
that cannot be made available and I am
of opinion that your friend Culver will not
be much in your way this season I would
be in favour of early purchases if the
money could by any reasonable means be
raised for if the prospects perhaps should
be flattering in the middle of the season planters
will by same means raise money consequently
the price will be high Altho I am much
less satisfyed with the way we have been compelled
to do business if we do not make
heavy losses in our [Callerhans?] we will
make more money this season then we
ever have but I hope you will be all
more prudent when you get money again
and profit by this years lesson be seen never
to ship a negroe that has not been vaccinated
or purchase one that will not sell
readily for cost the unsuitable and
Diseased negroes are alway in the way here
where we are prefered for room and if
you should be unfortunate to get hold of
that description the first sacrofise is the
best I haveto shipp them only accumulates expense
Doctors bills and sextans bill neither of which
are as high with you as with us Adiou Isaac Franklin