Check out this marvelous 1865 letter from a former slave to his former, um, employer, explaining his reservations about renewing their former relationship.
By Roderick
Check out this marvelous 1865 letter from a former slave to his former, um, employer, explaining his reservations about renewing their former relationship.
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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That was pretty awesome.
Absolutely amazing. Indeed the best thing I’ve read this week.
[...] From a Slave to His Former Master, in 1865 from Roderick Long [...]
I find it hard to believe this is not a scam, but it sure seems from the context and citations that it’s genuine.