Letters from a Slave to Former Master.

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don2009

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Dang just thinking of that time really makes me sick how this country was So fucked up! Thanks to all the leaders on this horrible stain of America to make a change, I love all races god bless America. NEVER AGAIN!
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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SSHZ said:
Or it's a fake.
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UncleBuck said:
or you're racist as fuck.
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i think i might be wrong. i mean, i could be right, but i am citing hanlon's razor here:

"never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"

i am willing to bet that the person spouting this drivel simply has no idea that many slaves could read and write, often very well and even better than their owners in some cases.

my apologies for the assumption.
 
sunni

sunni

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SSHZ said:
Sounds very well written for a slave from 1865..... therefore, I tend to doubt it's authenticity.
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exactly i read about 2 lines and thought.... no too well written more then half the slaves could not write nor read as if was illegal.
 
Carne Seca

Carne Seca

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SSHZ said:
Or it's a fake.
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"Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio."

This, most likely, is the person who penned the letter for Mr. Anderson. Why else would he have the money delivered to that address?

Follow up:

In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).
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Mystery solved
 
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SSHZ

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I've come to expect comments exactly like that from you Buck so it's no surprise........and I'm not offended. Spew on.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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SSHZ said:
I've come to expect comments exactly like that from you Buck so it's no surprise........and I'm not offended. Spew on.
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if i were ignorant or racist, i would not be offended to be called called out as such either. because it would be true.

why do you have such a hard time accepting that many slaves could read and write?
 
robert 14617

robert 14617

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cannabineer said:
Back wages, accounts, ledgers ... are as old as money. cn
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i wonder who took the dictation fanny may , with all the talk of back wages and compounding interest, i also would like to see a w-2 25 bucks an hr for a former slave in post war south seems a bit high
 
Airwave

Airwave

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UncleBuck said:
if i were ignorant or racist, i would not be offended to be called called out as such either. because it would be true.

why do you have such a hard time accepting that many slaves could read and write?
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Stop talking rubbish.

You're one of those imbeciles that scream racism at the drop of a hat.

You and your ilk are the very bottom of the barrel of human waste. Your very existence is an affront to real people.

You won't take any offence at this statement, because it's true.
 
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