Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
The letter is very surprising. It's a very well-written and descriptive letter detailing his hardships and what his demands are (if wanted for return).
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.
He did not want his daughters to suffer any harm or harassment from white slave owners. Jourdan said he would rather starve and even die before his daughters suffered any harm.
I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee
Jourdan demanded a higher wage, access to more food and clothing, a home for his family, and the ability for his family to attend church and school.
It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
Anderson believed it would be goo for him to go back to his old home again but he wasn't going without better conditions for his family and himself.
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, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you.
Anderson goes on to express to Colonel Anderson that he has felt uneasy about him thinking that he would have been caught and hung, not still here remembering him
The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically.
Slavery in the eyes of many is said to be socially, morally, and politically wrong. Yet some of the same people saying it was bad had slaves of their own (just maybe not as many and in better conditions). It would be like if another country just came over and bought thousands of Americans for their own slavery and yet, we would probably complain about how unethical it is. Yet we made the transaction. Freedom is perspective
The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.
This was the cause of the revolution.Slavery wasn't just a few people...there were people all over the country and classes that had them. The conditions varied but nevertheless, still enslaved.