you'll savor every word.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/raceequalopportunity/a/jourdonanderson.htm
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/raceequalopportunity/a/jourdonanderson.htm
former slave's letter to his Master
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you have to read the letter......to get the point.
Boltlady
Governor
According to things that I had read about the days of slavery, the 'masters' went to great lengths to make sure that their slaves did not learn to read. While there undoubtedly were exceptions, this letter was written by someone who had had quite a bit of schooling. Many of our young people today would not be able to write as well. Since Jourdan asked for assurances that there would be a proper school for his children, the impression was that none had been provided previously at the plantation where he had lived.
If he had acquired his education after he left, he must have been a very quick study. In short, I don't believe that the letter was actually written by an ex slave. He might have shared his feelings with a reporter who could have written it for him. The possibility also exists that it could just have been the work of a writer. It certainly served the purpose of having people understand some of what it had been like to be someone's property.
"The former slave's response to his former master's request surfaces again after the book, The Freedmen's Book, compiled by Lydia Maria Child almost 150 years ago, was reissued this month.
Jourdon, in the letter he dictated, replied his master that he and his family had moved from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, after being emancipated and now he had a job and was being paid, for the first time, for his labor.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/318800#ixzz1wDmBmUsi
Jourdon, in the letter he dictated, replied his master that he and his family had moved from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, after being emancipated and now he had a job and was being paid, for the first time, for his labor.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/318800#ixzz1wDmBmUsi
From Rand Paul, a good Conservative. The letter is very well written for a Negro in that day and time. It looks like Mr. Anderson did get an education. I hope he never went back. But even the former slave seemed comfortable with requesting $25.00 a month for himself but only $2.00 a month for his wife.
So you think it's bullsh!t? Libs are still producing bullsh!t reports like this today. I think the letter is most likely as you said, Anderson's sentiments being relayed to a writer.
OldGaffer
Governor
Southerners were and will always be, Conservatives, regardless of their party affiliation, but you knew that, you are just being intellectually dishonest, as usual.
Ah, that's okay then. $25.00 a month for him and $8.00 a month for the wife.
Nope, they were racist Democrats. to claim otherwise is to deny history.
GordonGecko
President
Not exactly accurate, is that, Barbella?
Tell them how back on "that previous blog" you claimed that black slaves "had it no worse" than white indentured servants.
Boltlady
Governor
Actually it wasn't just 150 years ago. I typed "slavery today" into Yahoo search and came up with quite a lineup. The following is one of many:
https://www.freetheslaves.net/SSLPage.aspx?pid=301
NightSwimmer
Senator
I find it interesting that this top-post is automatically seen by Republicans as an attack upon the Republican Party. Maybe they know something that the rest of us don't?
