In this part of the reading Mr. Wood’s letter on why he refuses to allow Mary’s freedom to be bought is the main focus. They bring up in page 43 the 6th point how Mr. Wood talks of Mary being licentious and even depraved in her conduct before marriage and even after marriage being unfaithful to her husband. Mary’s defense brought up a lot of good points saying if he knew of such horrible acts why would he sell five slaves before her and even make her the head of the household when they were gone. Such qualities aren’t fit for such an important job. Joseph Phillips later touches on this subject saying it was very common for slave masters to get with their slaves. Maybe this explains why Mrs. Wood was so hard on Mary all the time, maybe Mr. Wood had a thing for Mary and for this reason never wanted to sell her off, even though he accused her of all these things. This was very interesting to me because throughout the narrative sex isn’t really brought up but yet in these final letters it is. It goes to show that not everything that is said throughout the narrative is all that happend there were alot of background stuff that weren’t mentioned.