It was the night before Christmas

[David Lockmiller]

(12-26-2021 03:27 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Thanks for posting this David.
I went to Wikipedia to learn a little more about Jermain Wesley Loguen. An interesting man.
There was also a link there for the letter he received and wrote back to his fathers widow.

https://lettersofnote.com/2012/11/16/wretched-woman/

Jermain Wesley Loguen wrote back to the woman:

You are a woman; but had you a woman’s heart you could never have insulted a brother by telling him you sold his only remaining brother and sister, because he put himself beyond your power to convert him into money.

You sold my brother and sister, ABE and ANN, and 12 acres of land, you say, because I ran away. Now you have the unutterable meanness to ask me to return and be your miserable chattel, or in lieu thereof send you $1000 to enable you to redeem the land, but not to redeem my poor brother and sister! If I were to send you money it would be to get my brother and sister, and not that you should get land.