One of the best letters EVER! It's written by a slave to his former master.

[fasttense]

7. Wow, he certainly left none of the horrors out.

"In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters."

Even white Southern women rarely spoke of the frequent rapes of slave women southern masters frequently committed.