Letter from Jourdan Anderson, Letter from Judge Albion

Letter from Jourdan Anderson, Letter from Judge Albion

Freedom to Jourdan Anderson meant that his children could go to school and get an education something that he didn’t have. He gets paid every month and his wife every two weeks with victuals and clothing. They have a comfortable home and they are treated very nicely there. When he was in the plantation they shot at him before he left. They never paid him for his faithful work over the past thirty-two years, and Mandy’s faithful work for over twenty years.

The overall meaning of his letter was to get paid for what he had worked for so many years. Also, to see if his old master actually wanted him and his family to go back and to see if he was willing to do what he asked for his forgiveness. I feel like he was being serious about him willing to go back to his old home mainly because those people became family even though they didn’t treat them to well. I think he wrote this letter because he ready to forgive his old owner and the tone of his voice and word chose showed me that he was firm but yet he wasn’t angry with him no more.

In the Letter from Judge Albion he mentions that the Ku Klux Klan is killing people and this is because they don’t want the people to make complaints about the truth of their declarations. Their target is the poor people who can’t defend and protect themselves. Tourgee blames for the KKK’s actions the political parties. He mentions thatches ashamed of the party because they don’t do anything for their people they sent them not armed enough and don’t protect them from assassinations at their opponent’s hands. Tourgee suggested solution is to first of all, let Congress give