When Lincoln met Harriet Beacher Stowe he said, "So you're the little lady who started this big war." Actually, it wasn't her who started it, but the people she was writing about. The Uncle Tom character, I call him St. Thomas was based on real-life characters. This is one of them. It was the testimony of people like him who gave life to the abolitionist movement. This is well-written. Clearly, the (white) man interviewing Josiah used his own vernacular, translating if you will, but it does make it easier to read, and does convey the man's character better than an attempt to record the diction more likely belonging to someone raised a slave. I overlooked that, and felt I got a clear picture who this man was.