ジェフリー・ライトさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジェフリー・ライトInstagram)「With all the talk of reparations, excerpts from a MUST READ! 1865 letter sent by a freedman to his former slaver: 🖐🏿🎤 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...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… 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 w/ victuals & clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy - the folks call her Mrs Anderson - and the children, Milly, Jane & Grundy - go to school…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...Mandy says she would be afraid to go back w/o 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…I served you faithfully for 32yrs, and Mandy 20yrs. At $25 a month for me and $2 a wk for Mandy, our earnings would amount to $11680. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and 3 doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy...Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V Winters, Esq, Dayton, OH...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. ....please state if there would be any safety for my Milly & Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda & Catherine… Say howdy to George Carter and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me. From your old servant, Jourdon Anderson」3月15日 8時54分