He's so well-spoken.

Quite authentic.

My God, its full of stars.



/That was awesome.
//Thanks, subby.

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They should've sent a poet. Oh snap, they did.

logruszed: He's so well-spoken.

Clean and well spoken. He should run for president.
Joe Biden

Farking brilliant!

Well, that's what you get for teaching them to read...they get all uppity and forget their station!

/ugh, I feel slimy typing that.

Oh snap indeed.

Fake!

A violent slave-owner who murdered a Union soldier and wanted to have his former slave move back South to work for him like in the good old days, on the promise that he won't beat him as much as he used to, with a "Hey, just because Lincoln freed you doesn't mean you can't be my property again, right?" attitude.

I just KNOW this guy has to be some republican Sentator's ancestor! No doubt about it!

Shenanigans.

calbert: Fark needs an 'uppity' tag

That way, the politics tab would only need two tags. (Hero being the other one)

logruszed: He's so well-spoken.

Indeed. Remarkably eloquent. I didn't know slaves got such good educations in those days. You'd be hard pressed to find a modern day teenager who knows what the word "recompense" means.

bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

The link to the real article mentions the letter was dictated. I presume the actual writer was an educated man who translated the former slave's vernacular into then-current American English.

bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

I was thinking the same. Did the slave master give him classes in prose?

pdieten: bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

The link to the real article mentions the letter was dictated. I presume the actual writer was an educated man who translated the former slave's vernacular into then-current American English.

That makes much more sense.

civil war troll thread!

It makes mention of pdieten: bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

The link to the real article mentions the letter was dictated. I presume the actual writer was an educated man who translated the former slave's vernacular into then-current American English.

It makes mention to send the eleven thousand dollars to a lawyer. It was probably a lawyer that was helping former slaves send letters to their masters for a cut of the back pay.

jingks: bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

I was thinking the same. Did the slave master give him classes in prose?

Notice the mention that the wages should be sent to a lawyer? I would guess that the specifics were dictated to this (quaker?) lawyer who just dressed it up but let it stand as the monument to man who did very well for himself using very little.

hoho19: It makes mention of pdieten: bob_ross: Heavily edited or not written by a slave.

The link to the real article mentions the letter was dictated. I presume the actual writer was an educated man who translated the former slave's vernacular into then-current American English.

It makes mention to send the eleven thousand dollars to a lawyer. It was probably a lawyer that was helping former slaves send letters to their masters for a cut of the back pay.

Imagining a Jacoby and Jacoby style lawyer involved makes chuckle. I wonder how much lemonade the ol Colonel spat when he read the letter.

I'm glad to see there were snarky sob's with great senses of humor way back then.

It's real. Here it is printed in the New York Tribune:

I'm confused. I've been led to believe by Teabaggers that slavery wasn't a big deal, and that the Civil War was a states rights/property rights issue, which is why they want it edited out of the history books. Surely if that were true, letters like this wouldn't exist, as all those African-Americans needed to do was use their bootstraps to find a well-paying job, and stop being such a welfare drain on their poor owners? What's a poor Canadian to believe?

That was goddamn awesome. Even if the letter had been written using the language Mr. Anderson was comfortable using, rather than the more eloquent words the person who took the dictation used, it still would have been goddamn awesome. I don't know if I was in Mr. Anderson's position, using whatever English I knew, I could have been that gracious, despite what I had to live through for 32 years.

I gotta say, that's major brass balls on the former slave owner's part to actually request that a freed man come back and go back to being a slave.

Nadie_AZ: Weren't their people employed to write down what people told them to do? I mean for those who could not read or write, they would pay someone to read or write the item for them.

Scriveners.

/Also, what do you mean, THEIR people?

Just awesome!

Cletus from Canuckistan: It's real. Here it is printed in the New York Tribune:

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Printed in the newspaper? It MUST be true! No paper would ever fabricate a story!

Gen. Patton Harvey Oswalt: I'm confused. I've been led to believe by Teabaggers that slavery wasn't a big deal, and that the Civil War was a states rights/property rights issue, which is why they want it edited out of the history books. Surely if that were true, letters like this wouldn't exist, as all those African-Americans needed to do was use their bootstraps to find a well-paying job, and stop being such a welfare drain on their poor owners? What's a poor Canadian to believe?

Are you actually an idiot, or do you just play one on Fark?

jagec: Well, that's what you get for teaching them to read...they get all uppity and forget their station!

/ugh, I feel slimy typing that.

Frederick Douglas wrote that his owner said much the same when he found out his wife taught Frederick to read. "Once they learn to read, they will never be satisfied as slaves."