Talk:Gideon Granger

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Post office segregation[edit]

Many people are claiming that Gideon Granger "segregated the post office", but the sources they cite always end up being loops on nothing. What he actually wrote on the subject tells a very different story. Instead of picking sides on the issue, it might be best to just quote his statement on the topic.

"The most active and intelligent [slaves] are employed as post riders … By traveling from day to day, and hourly mixing with people … they will acquire information. They will learn that a man’s rights do not depend on his color. They will, in time, become teachers to their brethren … One able man among them, perceiving the value of this machine, might lay a plan which would be communicated by your post riders from town to town and produce a general and united operation against you.”

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/the-history-and-experience-of-african-americans-in-america%E2%80%99s-postal-service-0#_edn4

Clearly this is practically an endorsement of a slave rebellion, but some historical revisionists claim he was endorsing segregation. When I find a better source that contains the whole text, it can be quoted directly. The source linked above has a similar issue; dead link source.

Sidvisibility (talk) 16:47, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK found a source that includes the full text of the letter.

https://files.libcom.org/files/Weir%20-%20Singlejack%20Solidarity.pdf

Sidvisibility (talk) 17:08, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]