I have my doubts about the authenticity of the letter. It just doesn’t read like the writing of the times.
It was a great learning experience to live in South Carolina for six years and hear the other side of the story.
Many slaves did not leave the families, the farms where they had a home, or the work they knew to do.
Praise the Lord, we ended slavery! At the same time, history has been rewritten for political propaganda.
Are we any less slaves to an evil government, and do we know the worse is yet to come? We Americans pay higher taxes than the serfs under evil kings.