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#3511372 - 02/04/12 02:12 PM
"To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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#3511380 - 02/04/12 02:18 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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I saw this a few days ago. Just wow.
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#3511393 - 02/04/12 02:32 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Love the Ohio connection. When you hear me say, Go Buckeye's, It's short for F'ally'all.
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#3511436 - 02/04/12 03:10 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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There's a 'screw you' that's so well-written, you wanna cheer.
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#3511442 - 02/04/12 03:18 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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I'm guessing he didn't send the money. Writing that must have meant more to him than any amount of money.
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#3511444 - 02/04/12 03:19 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Loved it until it got to the "back wages" portion. Bit unrealistic to expect that, I would imagine.
(I guess it bothered me because it sounds like too much like the modern day "reparations" talk, just another reason for "redistributing the wealth." I understand that blacks did not have the chance, for the most part, to accumulate family wealth during that, and subsequent times, like white people did, but at the same time, neither I, nor any of my family, ever owned slaves. And for that matter, we never benefited from, nor endorsed or promoted, any of the Jim Crow statutes. So any talk of "reparations" just gets my dander up.
And this seems like a website that would be for pushing said reparations.)
Edited by Li'lJugs (02/04/12 03:19 PM)
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#3511446 - 02/04/12 03:20 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Amazing. An eloquent attempt to enlighten the unenlightenable. I hope this man went on to have a life so good that it helped make up at least a little for all those tragic years of injustice and inhumanity. Cheers! Rick... 
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#3511479 - 02/04/12 04:02 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Loved it until it got to the "back wages" portion. Bit unrealistic to expect that, I would imagine.
(I guess it bothered me because it sounds like too much like the modern day "reparations" talk, just another reason for "redistributing the wealth." I understand that blacks did not have the chance, for the most part, to accumulate family wealth during that, and subsequent times, like white people did, but at the same time, neither I, nor any of my family, ever owned slaves. And for that matter, we never benefited from, nor endorsed or promoted, any of the Jim Crow statutes. So any talk of "reparations" just gets my dander up.
And this seems like a website that would be for pushing said reparations.)
Reparations? I honestly didn't get that from reading the letter several times through. I think it was more a case of Anderson putting an ironic monetary value of the years that he'd worked for his former master, especially taken in context with him contrasting his work conditions in Ohio.
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#3511511 - 02/04/12 05:03 PM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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The letter is from 1865, so it isn't really relevant to latter-day talk of reparations...
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#3511830 - 02/05/12 06:52 AM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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There's a 'screw you' that's so well-written, you wanna cheer. +1!
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#3511859 - 02/05/12 07:34 AM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Loved it until it got to the "back wages" portion. Bit unrealistic to expect that, I would imagine.
That's kind of the point. The entire letter is a "FU". And this seems like a website that would be for pushing said reparations. It's a website that publishes letters.... 
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#3511873 - 02/05/12 07:51 AM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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So it took a little over 100 years for people to go from treasuring their freedom to being satisfied to being back on the gov't plantation.
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#3511884 - 02/05/12 08:07 AM
Re: "To my old master" - Letter from an emancipated slave (1865)
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Really quite an interesting letter to read, thank you for posting the link.
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