Response To Jourdon Anderson's Letter

My original name is Carl Smith but my friends call me CS. I’m 23 years old, I’m from Virginia and during the last years I have been traveling around the 13 colonies to fight the British soldiers. The reason why I joined the American Army over 6 Months ago is because I’m single, and I also was unable to get a job that I wanted was unable to receive my diploma, because I was unable to afford the stamp to be stamped on the certificate. I also joined the army because I was tired of all these decisions the British government took for us because we had no authority for example I was tired of the Kings’ unacceptable taxes over some items for example the stamp act. Soldiers are not professionals in modern English, for they might well first enter a military school or buy a commission... The stamp act was a tax put it to every official document, the list included Contracts, newspapers, and playing cards. Important people to colonies had to purchase these stamps. After all the sales the colony would take a good amount of money from all the stamps they sold. This new revenue was to collect money from the different colonies in the U.S. This tariff it was supposedly used to protect the British colonies, but in reality it was used to pay the national debt that the Seven Years war left to Great Britain . In consequence I decided to join the American Army, I have participated in The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre, The army of

America has gone through a terrible past. It has once decided to own people as property and deprive African Americans of their liberties and enslaved them. Since then, the United States has attempted to repair this mistake through reparations. The legal reparations of the United States have unsuccessfully redressed individual and social injustices by failing to alleviate the pain caused to the African American community. The Harm caused by Slavery still continues to be suffered by the community through this day.

In Kelly James Clark’s Article “Without Evidence or Argument”, Clark argues that belief in God, does not require the support of evidence or argument in order for it to be rational. Clark’s argument is against W.K. Clifford’s article “The Ethics of Belief”, in which Clifford claims that everything must be believed only on the basis of sufficient evidence (139). Throughout Kelly Clark’s article he states many things that support his conclusion of belief without evidence or argument, however, my paper will only discuss what Clark says on p.139 starting with the paragraph “The first problem with Clifford’s…” and the following paragraph, ending with the words “...to see why.”

The United States government should pay reparations to African Americans as a means of admitting their wrong-doing and making amends. The damages African Americans have sustained from White America’s policy of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore, I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effect of slavery has been an enduring issue within the African American community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm racism brought to the African American race, conveyed through slavery, racial segregation and discrimination. African Americans suffered many atrocities, but the greatest damage done to them was the destruction of they’re original identity. African

1. For me, Pennington’s purpose is to inform and entertain the readers. It appears to be informative because is talking about issues and health-skin problems caused by the bedbugs, at the same time the article entertains the reader with this issue, that maybe many of the readers didn’t know about before. The tone of the article gets people attentions and it conveys to the reader a tone of informality. His article doesn’t seems to be formal because they way that he presents the problems with bedbugs.

For many years the United States has committed atrocious and discriminatory acts against African Americans. In a seemingly more “equal” society today many are wondering what debt is owed to the descendants of African Americans. According to Alfred Brophy of University of North Carolina, reparations are defined as, “programs that are justified on the basis of past harm and that are also designated to assess and correct that harm and improve the lives of victims in the future.” Throughout this paper I will be discussing whether reparations should be paid to African Americans. I will evaluate the question through legal, moral, and political lenses. I will evaluate the start of the movement of reparations while also taking into consideration how reparations have been given in the past. I will also explore new forms/types of reparations that can be given to African Americans. I will also determine the short and long term impacts the implementation of reparations would have on African American society and the society in its entirety.

(3) When first reading these narratives one would often assume, by what history tells us, that slave owners were cruel, hated men who often beat slaves severely if they committed even the slightest infraction. While this depiction does stand true for some slave owners, I was surprised to find that most of the former slaves interviewed in the “Slave Narratives” often held their masters in high regards, referring to them as kind and good. Former slave Harriett Gresham even goes as far to say that her master, Mr. Bellinger was “exceptionally kind”. Many slaves in the narratives described their masters as good to his slaves and never whipping them unless it was absolutely necessary. However, when the former slaves spoke of the “paterollers”, white men who roamed the roads in search of runaway slaves often beating them and returning them to their owners, they were described as being very cruel to slaves showing no sympathy to any slave found running away from a

Blackmon, Matthew J. Mancini, Christopher R. Adamson, and William Cohen explored the issues faced by African-Americans throughout the South post-Civil War. Refuting the common narratives propagated by some historians, each author brings a unique perspective to the discussion. In combining numerous documents and personal accounts, Blackmon effectively examines the tactics utilized by states in the South that resulted in conditions mirroring slavery. Countless businesses and persons benefited handsomely from convict laborers as Southern States seemingly had an endless supply of labor. Mancini explored the origin of convict leasing in the American South, noting that it is difficult, but not impossible to explain its existence. Different from others beliefs, he explained the heavy economic incentives resulting from convict labor and it differences from slavery. By his estimation, equating the two systems misrepresents them. Adamson examines the dilemma of ex-slaves living in the South and their precarious situation as they sought to exercise their newly secured rights. Cohen plainly states the issues percolating in the South with respect to labor control. Southerners needed labor and recently freed slaves provided the opportunity for them to exploit them once more under the pretense of legal

The purpose of this assignment is the analysis of a primary source document from 1865. This document is a letter from the former slave Jourdon Anderson in reply to a letter sent from his previous owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson. While a simple letter stating his lack of desire to return would have sufficed, Jourdan proceeds to cordially respond in a manner that shows stark truth and logical reasoning as to what Colonel P.H. Anderson must ensure in order for Jourdon to make any attempt to once more work under the Colonel’s hospitality.

Anderson about how well his family be treated and the payment arrangement for the work they would be doing while they are there, and what about old wages for the work and time already served as Col Anderson slave that he and his had never got because they were slaves at the time? The Thirty-two years of free slave work, he calculates would come to $11,680. Jourdon added that col. Anderson could deduct the amount that was paid for Jourdon and his family clothing they had received while there and his three doctor's visits in his 32 years while there working for Col. Anderson, but he would have to add interest, of course to the back

To start off, Douglass begins by explaining his purpose of his letter to Thomas Auld. To make things clear from the get to, Douglass states that he does not want to be uncivil with Thomas Auld, but to only convince the country to abolish slavery with Thomas Auld’s wrongdoings and other monstrous slave owners. Furthermore, Douglass brings up some of the unethical actions Thomas Auld did; such as, “robbing” or even “murdering” (101). Throughout the letter, Douglass writes short stories about his awful experiences as a former slave to truly demonstrate his feelings. For instance, Douglass describes Thomas Auld’s barking orders to Douglass, [with his trembling voice] that was not to be forgotten which put great fear into Douglass (102). In other words,

The author uses the term “Reparations” repetitively in the text. According to the text the word “reparation” means to make amends. Coates (2014) also refers to reparations as compensation. America should take responsibility and pay the price for the mistreatment to African Americans (2014). Coates (2014) does not only mean monetary compensation but acceptance and acknowledgement. The author

I think Anderson responds in this way because he is entertaining 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 “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 to

Response: (E) In this passage, Lindstorm shares a man’s comparison of losing a smart phone to the reliance of an addictive substance. This may seem like a very far reach in comparison, but through this thought we see how influential items we see as a necessity in today’s society really are. With this idea in mind Lindstorm is trying to show his readers how exposure to these seemingly amazing devices that alter how we spend our everyday lives may actually be harmful. (Q) Why would Lindstorm choose this specific incident to share with the readers of his book? I believe that the author chose this exact scenario to show how addicted the modern world is to the items we use

Thank you for sharing the next installment of your novel with me. I think that your initial concerns about this not being good work is not true. I found the writing captivating and I believe that it will have a place in your novel as you hash over their place in the narrative. I believe Paw-Paw’s voice is emerging through his letters. There is a special kindness that comes out that is shown through a pair of lovers and I think that expands to his care for his boys on the ship with him. It’s a good start. “My little bird” is a great way to start off the letters as well as the recaps of what he sees at that moment in those letters. I think one of the biggest things to consider within the letters that Paw-Paw doesn’t summarize the whole deployment