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Old 02-06-2012, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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In biblical times - the servant (slave) was to be respected as much as the master...if the master was corrupt...`the most righteous slave would take his place...working relationships of so-called slave - master ...are not always bad - If the master is of USE to the slave - good - and if the slave is of USE to the master ...also good - IF the use is abuse...then the relationship must be abolished...People fail to realize that not all historical stero-typical reports on slavery are accurate - there were good slaves and good masters..and one was not higher than the other - but that would have taken an intelligent master and an intelligent slave.
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Old 02-09-2012, 06:02 PM
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One has to only read the writing of Frederick Douglas, Williams Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, or Olaudah Eqiano to get examples of eloquent slave writing. The laws baning educating slaves were only to keep Slaves from reading David Walkers appeal which was being circulated in 1845? By then value of owing an educated well spoken bondsman was all too well known.
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Old 02-10-2012, 03:03 AM
 
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This letter was "dictated" to the New York Daily News. Although the slave and his family were real, the NYDN was an abolitionist newspaper run by Horace Greeley and had a reformist agenda which included temperance and women's rights. The letter was not written by the slave himself (his case was probably used by some reporter) and should be interpreted with the slant and embellishment of the newspaper in mind.
New York Tribune, you mean. The Daily News is a modern tabloid still printing everyday.
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Old 02-10-2012, 05:08 AM
 
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I wonder how many people are going to overlook the fact that this was apparently a much more literate country 150 years ago than it seems to be now. Most people don't take the time to sit down and write real letters any more.
Yeah, but their videos sucked.

The richness and color of written language from that era was dictated by neccessity. Now you get an email, with video or color picture attachment and a phone call too.

I appreciate your point and it is indeed a lost art but there are many skills from prior eras that have disappeared from the mainstream.
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