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Annie Harper's Journal: A Southern Mother's Legacy
Annie Harper's A Southern Mother's Legacy
76 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1983
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February 18, 2023
This is a letter written by Annie Harper from Fayette County, Mississippi, to her daughter reflecting on what she experienced before, during and after the Civil War. She was educated in economics and gives a fascinating account that everyone should read as another perspective. The economy was wrecked by the war. Lawlessness abounded. I learned some new political and historical lessons I didn’t know before. I found that some of these tactics used by the white men of the south to try to establish order in a lawless after war land have rebounded today and used by organizations like BLM today, only the shoe is on the other foot. Sadly peace doesn’t rein even today and force and intimidation over reason is being used.
This writer is glad slavery was abolished though she points out mistakes and lack of planning afterwards which led to many more deaths and problems caused by the lawlessness and immorality and complete disregard for human life of and by both races. She speaks with a little bitterness at the end.
I appreciated her view about how new generations never learn from prior generations, but her hope for the future when she comments about the Geneva award in the Alabama Case (where Britain was held monetarily responsible for supplying warships to the Confederate cause). “The Geneva award excites hopes that in the future the savage in man may succumb to the demands of a Christian civilization, and let the voice of reason be heard in the adjudication of his affairs.When the balance of justice, instead of the Sword of vengeance shall be the deciding power, then man may lay some claim to being God-like. In speculating upon the possible destiny of man, . .
. any hope of high attainment must be abandoned, if the history of the future is only to be a repetition of the past, with its blood stained pages.”
This writer is glad slavery was abolished though she points out mistakes and lack of planning afterwards which led to many more deaths and problems caused by the lawlessness and immorality and complete disregard for human life of and by both races. She speaks with a little bitterness at the end.
I appreciated her view about how new generations never learn from prior generations, but her hope for the future when she comments about the Geneva award in the Alabama Case (where Britain was held monetarily responsible for supplying warships to the Confederate cause). “The Geneva award excites hopes that in the future the savage in man may succumb to the demands of a Christian civilization, and let the voice of reason be heard in the adjudication of his affairs.When the balance of justice, instead of the Sword of vengeance shall be the deciding power, then man may lay some claim to being God-like. In speculating upon the possible destiny of man, . .
. any hope of high attainment must be abandoned, if the history of the future is only to be a repetition of the past, with its blood stained pages.”
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