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he could take him down South and sell him for $2000. or $2500, the said Woodard positively denies ever having threatened to take the said boy Henry or any of his other slaves South for the purpose of selling them but upon the contrary refused to sell any of his slaves unless at their own request, and he can prove that he was offered $1400. for one of his negro men only a few weeks before he sold Henry to his Father, and refused to take said offer because said negro man did not want to be sold; and it was at the earnest solicitation of the boy Henry and his Father the said Miles Childress that the said Thomas Woodard finally consented to sell said boy Henry to his Father; the said Miles Childress who is an uncommonly sensible Free man of color, was well apprised as to the status of Slavery at the time of making said trade; as I drew the bill of sale for said boy Henry from my Father to the said Miles Childress, and heard them speaking freely upon the subject of the abolition of Slavery and of President Lincoln's emancipation Proclamation &c and my Father's refusing to warrant the title to said boy, the said Childress agreeing, that he was willing to pay the $800, the said Woodard to make him a title to the said boy Henry free from  the claims of himself or any person claiming through or under him but not warranting the title any further; some of the said Childress friends advising him not to buy said boy Henry as the probabilities were that Slavery would soon be abolished, but the said Miles Childress insisting that he had rather give the $800 and have his son with