I read this yesterday. The irony the former slave captured in the letter had me smiling.
I wonder if the freed slave learned to read and write. I love how he demanded “back wages”. I doubt most college grads would be able to write like this former slave. Maybe they should post this letter in black majority school to shame the students to value education.
This poor man spoke of no Welfare at all. He only spoke of the pain of having to work for wages. And there was not even any section 8 housing!
If only he had lived in the year 2000 he could have had all the food and clothing and housing his former master supplied, and not had to perform any labor at all.
His baby momma would not even need him around to help send the children to church and get their education, so he would have been have had even more freedom!
And Mathilda and Catherine, having “grown up attractive”, could have made quite a prosperous living on the streets of any of the heavily democrat districts of the USA (if you catch my drift)
And I bet he never even got his reparations.