In the excerpt of a letter from Joseph Taper to what seems to be his former master, Joseph Long, Taper informs Long of how his life has changed after he escaped to Canada. His kids now go to school, his wife happy, and overall his life has become a good and pleasurable life, without any more kind of brutality. Probably the reason he even wrote this to begin with during the time of slavery was to simply brag his successful escape to his former master and of how much of a good life he is receiving in a “land of liberty” than with him. According to Taper’s letter, freedom seems to be having a good life, no violence or fear, and getting an education when he was referring to his son. He states that his family “have good schools, and all the colored
