My husband thinks it is a fraud, too. ‘The guy writes like an English major.’
There is a lot of fake stuff out there.
The letter was dictated.
But if you read the thousands of ex slave stories that are in the library of congress, you will see the GREAT educational disparity between the former slaves. The historians, to preserve authenticity and the educational, cultural status of each old man or woman, wrote down the narratives as spoken. In dialect or not. So some were in such old time southern slave dialect as to be hard to understand, and to make mammy in gone with the wind sound like he queen of england, but plenty of them used educated speech and a far higher vocabulary and sentence structure than their descendants ever dreamed. The spectrum is very dramatic.
No way an ex-slave wrote that, it’s a fraud.
I doubt many of todays college educated basketball players could write that well, much less an ex-slave.
Could very well be a fraud but remember Nat Turner.
Except it isn't.