January 30, 2012

rex: Just one of the classic lines in a letter sent by an emancipated slave, in response to his former master who had mailed him a letter requesting he come back to Tennessee to work on the farm:“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.” (via Letters of Note: To My Old Master)

rex:

Just one of the classic lines in a letter sent by an emancipated slave, in response to his former master who had mailed him a letter requesting he come back to Tennessee to work on the farm:

“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.”

(via Letters of Note: To My Old Master)

1 note
Leave Note / Reblog

1 Notes

  1. byrdie reblogged this from rex
  2. rex posted this