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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/letter-freed-slave-former-master-draw-attention-151653952.html
August 22, 1865
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable.
Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to.
Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
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As if everyone doesn't read the little yahoo blurbs.
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Damn I can't say anything I want to say in this thread, not even jokingly, because I'm gonna get banned if I do.
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Frederick Douglass did the same thing with his old master Thomas Auld, sort of...
http://books.google.com/books?id=rakJAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA421&ots=z3-5LV_xxx&dq=Frederick%20Douglass%20letter%20to%20old%20master&pg=PA421#v =onepage&q&f=false
Basically said, "Slavery is inhumane. We are individuals, regardless of skin color. I stand proudly by your side, not as a slave, but as a fellow human."
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Wow the comments on that article are terrible. It's like they are trying to be worse than youtube posters.
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I would have loved to seen the look on the former slave owners face when he read that.
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please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
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I like that the letter was the utmost in politeness, but rang so earnest in its meaning.
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Fallen_daemon posted:
please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
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Unrelated, but it reminds of a stand-up act comparing letters from the Civil War with letters from the Gulf War...
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Fallen_daemon posted:
please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
Shows how ignorant you are of American History. Did you fail history in high school? Or were you an immigrant?? That would explain your atrocious use and butchering of English.
During Slavery, some African-Americans DID learn how to read and write.
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Shazami posted:
Fallen_daemon posted:
please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
Shows how ignorant you are of American History. Did you fail history in high school? Or were you an immigrant?? That would explain your atrocious use and butchering of English.
During Slavery, some African-Americans DID learn how to read and write.
Being skeptical of a story is not the same thing as believing it is entirely untrue, as in the following: The Sideshow presents items of peculiar interest. An item purports to be a letter from a former Tennessee slave to his former slave owner.
The newspaper of attribution was the New York Daily Tribune of August 1865. Presumably, the letter and the Flickr image of the Tribune have been verified as accurate, a stated requirement of the Letters of Note website.
A curious problem with authenticity arises, however, if you note the Library of Congress' New York Daily Tribune list of digitized volumes begins in 1875. A minor point, perhaps, but it signals the letter might have had a different origin.
http://news.yahoo.com/myth-great-hearted-former-slave-194100493.html
According to an edition of the New York Daily Tribune published at the time, Jourdon Anderson dictated the letter to give his weighty and fitting response.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094555/Moving-letter-freed-slave-Jourdon-Anderson-old-master-asked-work-farm.html#ixzz1lBZO4dKJ
reading comprehension !@#$$ 
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Shazami posted:
Fallen_daemon posted:
please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
Shows how ignorant you are of American History. Did you fail history in high school? Or were you an immigrant?? That would explain your atrocious use and butchering of English.
During Slavery, some African-Americans DID learn how to read and write.
Wasn't it only like 10-15% of all slaves could read and write though?
I don't remember the exact number but I remember it being really low.
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Fallen_daemon posted:
I hate brack people.
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-Ronsac- posted:
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barack umbama.
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Yet another thing on ACF I don't care about so +1 I guess
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My God. The first troll was a black man. This changes everything.
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Chogram posted:
Shazami posted:
Fallen_daemon posted:
please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
Shows how ignorant you are of American History. Did you fail history in high school? Or were you an immigrant?? That would explain your atrocious use and butchering of English.
During Slavery, some African-Americans DID learn how to read and write.
Wasn't it only like 10-15% of all slaves could read and write though?
I don't remember the exact number but I remember it being really low.
i would be surprised if the free population was much higher at the end of the civil war.
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-Dyslexia- posted:
Chogram posted:
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[quote=Fallen_daemon]please the slave didn't write that letter at all, someone wrote it for him.
Shows how ignorant you are of American History. Did you fail history in high school? Or were you an immigrant?? That would explain your atrocious use and butchering of English.
During Slavery, some African-Americans DID learn how to read and write.
Wasn't it only like 10-15% of all slaves could read and write though?
I don't remember the exact number but I remember it being really low.
i would be surprised if the free population was much higher at the end of the civil war.[/quote]
Exactly. A lot of people neglect the economic and social situations in the south that lead to the civil war. Yes, it was primarily over slavery. That was the big issue. A lot of it had to do with states rights, particularly southern states. Most of the soldiers who fought in the civil war never owned slaves, and at that time were only a step up from slavery themselves.
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A lot of slaves were taught reading/writing/math if for any reason to do the jobs that required it. Some black slaves may have learned reading and writing along with the white kids while being home schooled.
Most slaves lived amongst the white people who owned them on the same farm. If you realize that you would understand that most slaves were not treated poorly as portrayed in a movie like roots. I mean you don't do that as a human being to people that are living amongst your family. History is full of black people who had good relations with their master. George Washington best friend was a negro slave. Lewis from Lewis and Clark took a good friend of his a slave on his expectation. He actually was a valuable member of the team.
Was slavery an inhumane practice. Yes no excuse for it and to have had it drag on as long as it did in this country is a blemish on our history.
Did slaves on plantations get treated poorly ? Yes that's were most of the barbarism that you here about came from. Most slaves though probably like 90 percent of them were on small farms in the south and the treatment of those slaves was far better then on the plantations.
The only reason I bring this up is people just look at it the wrong way. The people that lived in those times thought like people during those times and right and wrong or good and evil have to be defined imo as thinking like someone who lived during those times.
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I call foul on this one. There were no computers back then, how could they have wrote that?????
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Its cool, the black man is getting their revenge for those backpay wages!
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Thomas Jefferson had a 14 y/o girl as a sex slave.
Why did we get rid of slavery again?
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