March 2012
17 posts
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on...”
– Gandhi
February 2012
5 posts
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etiquette as vengeance
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee,had the temerity to write to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, requesting that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon responded in a letter of superb etiquette, excerpted below:
“I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a...
