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countryjake

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15. Reading those accounts at your first link...

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Wed May 23, 2012, 03:39 AM

May 2012

made me almost physically ill, so I skipped on to the second link...thanks for sharing that amazing letter! I'm so glad that someone took the time to research the genealogy of that family to verify the truth behind it; what an incredibly kick-ass statement and wonderful record this man has put to paper, no matter who may have helped him do it! What a treasure!

Reading those words of Jourdan's has made my day and I also fully agree with the rest of your post. We are always expendable and once we can no longer produce for them, we are worthless in their eyes.

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The way old slaves were treated helps explain the attitude toward older workers, social security... [View all] Octafish May 2012 OP

yikes! G_j May 2012 #1

Mr. Jourdon Anderson's excellent letter to his old master. Octafish May 2012 #3

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2012 #7

Wow. That is great. drm604 May 2012 #8

WOW!! Just WOW! loudsue May 2012 #9

remarkable G_j May 2012 #12

I do believe this letter is worthy of Mark Twain. cliffordu May 2012 #13

Kick and Recommend ~ thanks Octafish goclark May 2012 #19

and we all know how the ownership class felt about educating their workers, too grasswire May 2012 #2

Isn't that the truth? Octafish May 2012 #5

Until fairly "recent" history, the older people were just a normal part SoCalDem May 2012 #4

Excellent points. Nowadays, Corporate America absconds with the Workers' Pensions. Octafish May 2012 #6

My eyes are burning after reading that. enough May 2012 #10

Truly heartbreaking. The thing is, this all isn't the ancient past: Octafish May 2012 #11

Southern slave culture ErikJ May 2012 #14

Thomas Johnson wrote an excellent accounting: 'Twenty-Eight Years a Slave'... Octafish May 2012 #16

"95% of the whites weren't slave owners" ... at any given time. ieoeja May 2012 #18

Reading those accounts at your first link... countryjake May 2012 #15

It is sickening. I force myself to learn these things because the slaveowner class had children. Octafish May 2012 #17