Letter from J. W. Stuckey in Bishopville, South Carolina, to S. Gibbons in Mobile, Alabama.
In the letter Stuckey discusses the slave Warren, whom he had sold to Gibbons the previous year. A physician hired by Gibbons diagnosed the boy with "chronic rheumatism," but Stuckey maintains that he was never ill before the sale. While he will not take Warren back, he is willing to trade...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Stuckey discusses the slave Warren, whom he had sold to Gibbons the previous year. A physician hired by Gibbons diagnosed the boy with "chronic rheumatism," but Stuckey maintains that he was never ill before the sale. While he will not take Warren back, he is willing to trade him for another slave the next time he is in Alabama. He closes the letter with the following suggestion: "I feel very confident that the boy has become dissatisfied and has adopted this course to get back. I have no doubt if you will send him back to your plantation & instruct your overseer to correct him moderately that no more will be heard about chronic rheumatism." |
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