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discuss slavery as a necessary evil
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this system entailed upon them.
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God, they wished they were without it.
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And some of them, frankly folks,
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were deeply sincere in that.
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One of the most famous and one of the most prolific was a man
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named Charles Colcott Jones who owned a huge rice
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and partly cotton plantation system in low-country Georgia,
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just south of Savannah.
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He and his family wrote literally thousands upon thousands of letters.
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those family letters have been published
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in a book called The Children of Pride,