Espero que te vaya bien en tus estudios :) One of my high school teachers had this quote on the wall, which the internet attributes to Ezra Pound: “The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."
Hello Nate. I've been reading your blog. I like the intellectual points you make about Poe's "The Raven". Hearing you speak about it is like rediscovering a forgotten favorite storyteller, Poe. In High School one of our literature teachers read his short story "ATell-Tale Heart" to us. I was sitting on the edge of my seat anticipating each sentence through the entire short story. She read the story to us with such intensity and emotion we hung on her every word. Thank You for reminding us of one of America's artistic geniuses. No matter what his shortcomings or faults. He is one of our greats. I'm going to make it a goal to try and read all of Poe that I can. I should have done it long ago. Thanks for reminding me of his great stories. You may also be interested in Charles Baudelaire, the French poet who translated Poe's works into french. As well, Arthur Rimbaud, another French poet that influenced modern literature, music, arts and prefigured surrealism. Thank you for your enlightenment. Hope all is well with you. Hang in there. Talk to you later.
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post and it was very thought-provoking. I hope you are able to make the most of your time and continue learning. Good luck with persuading others to join you - you are quite right that ignorance is easier but it doesn't get you very far!
well done this is a true story and I hope it will help someone sons or daughter cause an innocence child went to prison grew up to become a strong black man I know it for a fact cause the child which became a man is my son my name is Gloria Gamble Trevin Gamble I am proud of you Stay Strong And keep the Faith Your Freedom is coming
Johnny! I know it's been ages since I've written, but life got really hectic there for a while. I'm at a new address, and I'll update you in the letter that I'm working on now. I'm so sorry it has been so long - I'm also sorry I missed your birthday! I hope it was as enjoyable as could be, given the circumstances. Anyway, once I get this letter finished, it will be off in the mail! So don't think I've forgotten you/no longer wish to write because that isn't the case at all!
I enjoy your posts. I hope you'll keep finding ways to keep meditation in your life. The more I do it the more committed I am to its value in becoming all the person we are. One of my lifelong struggles has been compulsive eating. Meditation has not gotten me past that yet but I am still hoping.
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 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without 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. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. 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.
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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I hope you are able to make the most of your time and continue learning. Good luck with persuading others to join you - you are quite right that ignorance is easier but it doesn't get you very far!
Sincerely,
Brit
Carry on!
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
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.