Enslaved Africans made numerous attempts to escape bondage. In many instances the newly freed recorded their experiences as both enslaved, and free. The record of their ordeal is documented in books, oral history, slave narratives, and family recollections.
The new, free life offered an income, better health and living conditions, and primarily, safety for the families. Safety for their wives and children, but, particularly their female offspring. These feelings are expressed by former slave,
Jourdon Anderson, in this letter to his former "master".
As well, note the writer's sarcasm at the end.
The new, free life offered an income, better health and living conditions, and primarily, safety for the families. Safety for their wives and children, but, particularly their female offspring. These feelings are expressed by former slave,
Jourdon Anderson, in this letter to his former "master".
As well, note the writer's sarcasm at the end.
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