“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Former Slave's Letter to Former Master
A masterpiece of controlled rage and understated mordant sarcasm. The closer:
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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