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Letter from a former slave to his old master
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deadcactus
Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
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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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Shazami
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Registered: 2002-3-22 16:26:07
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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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Chogram
Posts: 945
Registered: 2001-8-23 02:52:32
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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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-Ronsac-
Title: The Boognish
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Registered: 2002-6-26 15:30:44
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Fallen_daemon posted:
I hate brack people.
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-Ronsac- posted:
Fallen_daemon posted:
barack umbama.
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tillsb
Title: me
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Registered: 2003-7-24 20:45:26
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Yet another thing on ACF I don't care about so +1 I guess
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Dark_EternalFF
Title: Official ACF Turd
Posts: 1,838
Registered: 2002-11-8 22:44:06
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My God. The first troll was a black man. This changes everything.
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-Dyslexia-
Title: I Was Fir3d by Mithan
Posts: 199
Registered: 2001-5-1 15:52:19
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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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Onslaught.
Title: I've always wanted a title.
Posts: 1,377
Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
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-Dyslexia- posted:
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.
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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