The diseased or otherwise unfit negroes were sold for whatever price they would bring.

In some of the ports it appears that certain physicians made a practise of buying these to sell the survivors at a profit upon their restoration to health.[50] [Footnote 48: D.D.Wallace, _Life of Henry Laurens_, p.

75.] [Footnote 49: _The Gazette of the State of South Carolina_, Mch.

10, 1785.] [Footnote 50: C.C.Robin, _Voyages_ (Paris, 1806), II, 170.] That by no means all the negroes took their enslavement grievously is suggested by a traveler's note at Columbia, South Carolina, in 1806: "We met ...

a number of new negroes, some of whom had been in the country long enough to talk intelligibly.