Carol, this link is an advertisement to raise funds. Is there an actual letter in archives somewhere, or was this just an article written for publication, like a poem or tribute of some kind as was the custom then and earlier? This would certainly NOT have been an example of my early KY Andersons slaves (some of whom took the name Anderson), who were emancipated (it is all written in the deed books, will books, and county court order books) from 1820s, 30s and 40s (20 to 40 years before the Civil War). These actual transcribed records are posted on a recurring basis, by me on a Black History site - www.africanheritage.com - ... I have been watching for male descendants of Wilkins Anderson (b. 1799) to show up on the AndersonDNA project, to see if there is a closeness to my line. Another Anderson slave was educated, freed, took the name of James M. Priest (the M. is for his father's name, I am pretty sure), went to Liberia, Africa, around 1840, and later became a Vice President of that Country. Many, maybe most, of these people were valued members of the family; another black woman saved a baby during an Indian attack in 1838 in Texas, where several other members of the family were killed. She, Peggy, had been with the family since 1816. Knowing humankind as we all do, there was good and bad in all peoples - then as well as now. A brother of my GG grandfather was killed by a slave in 1849. Times are different now and you obtain your labor help in other ways; but most of us are still dependant on working for a boss to care for ourselves and family. Mary Alice ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com