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dunmurderinOn The Sanctity of Marriage by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The main body of the article is a reprint of a letter written by a man to his wife, Laura Spicer. She and her husband were both slaves who'd been separated by their owner. After emancipation, the two of them considered reconciling but the husband had remarried. The letter was her husband more or less begging Laura to remarry herself. The whole letter is gut-wrenching but this paragraph gave me a particular twist:
Laura I do not think I have change any at all since I saw you last.-I think of you and my children every day of my life. Laura I do love you the same. My love to you never have failed. Laura, truly, I have got another wife, and I am very sorry, that I am. You feels and seems to me as much like my dear loving wife, as you ever did Laura. You know my treatment to a wife and you know how I am about my children. You know I am one man that do love my children....
Another link from Coates:
Honoring CHM: One Drop. Features a picture of emancipated slaves and descriptions of their circumstances written by Colonel George Hanks who'd commanded black troops during the war and who was trying to raise money to help educate these slaves.
Mary Johnson was cook in her master's family in New Orleans. On her left arm are scars of three cuts given to her by her mistress with a rawhide. On her back are scars of more than fifty cuts given by her master. The occasion was that one morning she was half an hour behind time in bringing up his five o'clock cup of coffee. As the Union army approached she ran away from her master, and has since been employed by Colonel Hanks as cook.
Laura I do not think I have change any at all since I saw you last.-I think of you and my children every day of my life. Laura I do love you the same. My love to you never have failed. Laura, truly, I have got another wife, and I am very sorry, that I am. You feels and seems to me as much like my dear loving wife, as you ever did Laura. You know my treatment to a wife and you know how I am about my children. You know I am one man that do love my children....
Another link from Coates:
Honoring CHM: One Drop. Features a picture of emancipated slaves and descriptions of their circumstances written by Colonel George Hanks who'd commanded black troops during the war and who was trying to raise money to help educate these slaves.
Mary Johnson was cook in her master's family in New Orleans. On her left arm are scars of three cuts given to her by her mistress with a rawhide. On her back are scars of more than fifty cuts given by her master. The occasion was that one morning she was half an hour behind time in bringing up his five o'clock cup of coffee. As the Union army approached she ran away from her master, and has since been employed by Colonel Hanks as cook.
