The Letter From Jourdan Anderson - 865 Words

Reading the first letter from Jourdan Anderson, one of the meanings of freedom one can take away from the tone of Anderson’s diction is the freedom to throw shade. Seriously, Anderson is now a free man and thus free to write smugly to his former master, and eloquently so. His letter essentially tells the Colonel there is no chance in hell that he and his family will return to live with the man who previously enslaved them. Anderson also expressed he knew he was already a free man in response to the Colonel promising his freedom upon his return. Anderson states, â€Å"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.† That line asserts to the Colonel that going returning to Big Spring would not be advantageous because he can already live freely with his family. He does not need, nor want to return to the Colonel’s home. I think Anderson responds in this way because he is e ntertaining the fact that the Colonel had the audacity to ask his former slave family to return because he couldn’t run things without them. Anderson brings up wages, giving the Colonel a proper dragging when he breaks down the math for the thirty-two and twenty years’ worth of work for which he and his wife were previously unpaid. He splendidly appends â€Å"Add this to the interest for the time our wages have been kept back†¦Please send the money by Adams’s Express,† and it is at this point that one can apply cold water toShow MoreRelatedThe Civil War Of African Americans1010 Words   |  5 PagesOne can only begin to imagine the life for a slave during the mid-late nineteenth century. For an African American, the word â€Å"life† evolved from a word that meant absolutely nothing, to a word that stood for an individual’s highest commodity. After the civil war, emancipation for slaves transformed from a dream to a reality. Although t he civil war finally ended in 1865 after four years of fighting, certain citizens and groups across the nation still remained in a state if disagreement with the freedomRead MoreA Research on African-American Literature1898 Words   |  8 Pagesreflections of the 1860s 1950s and 1960s America by notable African Americans. To My Old Master by Jourdon Anderson To My Old Master (Young, 1996, pp. 15-16) is chronologically the first of the three selected readings and is a letter written on August 7, 1865. Written 1 year after the authors emancipation and only 4 months after the end of the American Civil War, Andersons letter is clearly the product of the struggle between North and South regarding slavery, the emancipation of slaves byRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages10.5/12 ITC New Baskerville Std Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval