It has puzzled me that Solomon could have mailed the letter himself by placing it into a mail receptacle next time he went to town.
If questioned, he could say his master instructed him to mail a letter.
If he were an actual Southern slave, it would do him no good to mail a letter for himself, even if he could read & write.
"Hey, Epps! We got a response to that letter you sent"
"What letter?"
"That one you had Platt give us a week or so back"
"I never asked Platt to mail a letter!"
Commence the whipping.
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There would be no reply letter. The recipient of the letter would come rescue him, just as it happened in the movie.
And if someone did reply to the letter, they could just as well have replied to his letter mailed by someone else.
So my question remains: why didn't Solomon simply mail the letter himself next time her went into town?
There would be no reply letter. The recipient of the letter would come rescue him, just as it happened in the movie.Did Solomon know that was how it would happen?
Because then the movie would have been too short.
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He regularly went to the grocer, and he had his own money. The issue would have been, as others have alluded to, that any letter sent to a northern state with an unfamiliar address would have been 'noticed' and it is probable that would have been reported back to his 'owners'.
It night have worked, but the result of a failure would have likely been fatal.
What I don't get is why in 12 years Solomon never encountered a Quaker or any other religious figure of a persuasion known to be abolitionist. I accept they would have been rare birds in the South, but it seems odd to me that the first 'friendly' assistance he finds is a guy from Canada, of unknown disposition, (until said Canadian has an argument with the master).
If it were me, I would have left a note in the first Quaker meeting house I came across. Or similar.
In USA, it was "ok" to have/own slave, and backed by the law; just like Islamophobia is ok now.
The fact that Solomon found the 1 guy, who was against slavery, is a Canadian clearly reflect that sad reality.