Former Slave Wants His Pay

General
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Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865.

To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.

Sir:

I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy (the folks call her Mrs. Anderson), and the children, Milly, Jane, and Grundy, go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At $25 a month for me, and $2 a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to $11,680. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve and die, if it come to that, than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

                                                                    From your old servant,
                                                                    Jourdon Anderson

P.S.— Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.

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The letter was propaganda written by Abe Lincoln’s boys to poke fun at the defeated South.

The letter was specifically written in July 1865, two months after the end of the civil war and was published in the local newspapers to piss off the defeated Southerners.

The letter was written by an activist and abolitionist known as Valentine Winters who was a banker as well as close friend of Abe Lincoln. After the defeat of the South, bankers in the North became overnight mbirrioneas loaning money to the farmers in the South. Hivyo ndio top U.S banks based in the North zilianzishwa.

One night the South was super wealthy and the next day they were flat broke. They never ever recovered. America still relies on this tactic of impoverishing via war.

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Also Abe Lincoln lied to the “freed slaves” that they would each receive 40 acres and a mule if they joined the Northern cause.

The negrumps are still waiting to this very day. And yes the negrumps lived like a king in the South. Many negrumps even owned their own plantations e.g Antoine Dubuclet.

Obama recently said that if negrumps receive their 40 acres and a mule they will become lazy. Then he gave billions to rescue Jewish banks and few more billions to the red Indians as reparations.

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Abram Lincoln tried to relocate Black people to South America. You can buy 40 acres today for $10K. But how will it help a Black man. Donald Trump released billions of funds to white business owners who simply took free money, caused massive inflation which may collapse the economy. He received a very stable economy from Obama. Dudes who had businesses making $30k a year, took government handouts of $700k. That’s Trump for you.

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Yes because he wanted the Chinese labourers to come build the railway lines.

White and Black labour had become very expensive and they ate a lot, complained alot and they worked slow.

The Chinaman and the Indian were very cheap plus they didn’t complain like blacks and whites.

Lincoln started shipping in Chinese immigrants in 1862 in the middle of the civil war so they could build the Central pacific railroad from California. And because the Chinese worked so cheap they were often attacked by the mzungu and the negrumps for lowering salaries.

The Americans preffered Chinese whereas the British in Canada and Jamaica preffered Indian labour. To this day the African American does not like the Chinese immigrant because he became massa’s favourite worker.

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Chinese are white ass boot lickers. America was built by Black people. Those railways, roads, bridges, home construction is by Black men, before Hispanics “arrived.”. Abram Lincoln was trying back door ethnic cleansing.

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100 years after the civil war, black manufacturing jobs now located in the North e.g Detroit, L.A were again shipped off to China where its cheaper and the Northern mbirrionea industrialist can make bigger profits.

You look at Kenya the jobs that should go to the Kenyan worker are again shipped to China where it’s cheaper. The Chinaman is even taking over hawking, food production and river road shops.

And Before that the Indian was brought in by the mzungu and took over African barter trade and cottage manufacturing. Later on when Africans started building dukas of their own, the Indian started building malls to swallow the African duka.

Meanwhile massa went past the human labourer to machines :

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@patco hata ulambe mzungu aje passport yako haitakua extended.