This weeks history assignment was to write a mock-letter-to-the-editor in the local newletter.

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Dear Sir,
The slaves are freed! Well, they're supposed to be. What does "freedom" really mean? Thats a question that is going through many former freed slaves minds right now.

I have just gotten back from a visit to the south, and I am deeply concerned for the freed Blacks. I thought I should start out explaining their condition to you.

The Blacks have no shelter. They are in dire need of food, and clothing.

The southerners are not treating blacks with equality. Southerners are killing the Blacks, and taking all sources of education away from the blacks who thirst for knowledge. They are treating them with unjustice!

Some people are starting to think, "Why did we fight the war in the first place? I mean, isn't slavery still here?"

1.We could take three major steps in improving their plight by organizing a group in the North who will teach the freed blacks how to read, and write.

2.We could have a food drive. Everyone. We could pitch in food to give to the freed slaves that had no money to purchase or grow their own crops. Or to the southerners whose land had been destoryed during the Civil War.

3. Be a friend

Thank you, Sir, for taking your time to read my letter. I hope that this will inspire you, as well as many others, to have a better understanding and outlook of the freed slaves.

Sincerely,
Emma Corder