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What were likely to have been the effect on slaves of the speculative process described in the letter?

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Expert Answer: The demand for all species of property here is great, constant and increasing. He can not ascertained what amount of property has been sold in any one country. More than 6, 000 Negroes and 10, 000 horses and mules have been sold in Yazoo Country alone, and from 1st Sept. up to this time there are Negroes by hundred in every little Log - Village for sale. He knows of no point in the world with four times its population which sells so many goods. All species of labor here cost three times as much as at Edenton, and as a general rule most everything costs about four times as much as in the old States except Negroes.
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More slaves would be required for the new cotton lands and it would be harmful to the people who were about to be enslaved because thousands were being sold for their labor.

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