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Writing letters helps to communicate with other people, sometimes even across oceans. Letter-writing probably allowed freed slaves to communicate with the outside world, including their friends and family.

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⏁To stay in touch with people, and maybe to just remember the history of what happened in that moment in time. So, like a journal. I think letters showed as a form of communication during that time because there were no things such as emails and texts.⏂

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Some purposes to writing letters is to talk or communicate with someone away from you. You might want to stay in touch with you family,friends,and more because you don't see them all the time. The role for writing letters during the reconstruction era was to stay in touch with people because you didn't have phones so it was much regular. During slavery the family use to thy to communicate with your family so they know more about there life then.

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to say something to someone with out directly talking or with technology.

communication

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Some of the purposes for writing a letter are that you could keep in contact with someone. In the reconstruction era, writing letters was helpful because there was no other way to communicate with someone, so it would be helpful to communicate through letters.

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i think some purposes for letter writing was to like command or persuade and sometimes inform like the amendments were to command the things that they said on them, and persuade people to do these things or there will be consequences and maybe to inform people about the new laws that they passed.

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Writing letters let people communicate to each other from far distances. Just like emailing and texting nowadays. Although we do write letters today, its not as common because they didn't have electronics back then so they used letters to communicate love, friendship, business, or important things happening

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There are many purposes for letters, one of them being obviously for regular messages, some for submitting things, some for warnings. Letters are very important because it helps you keep in touch with people. In stories, it can mean something strange, such as warnings, or trying to find lost families. In "I Thought my Soul Rise and Fly" she writes letters to a mysterious, and probably a non-exsistant person.

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to get to no some one or to stay inn touch.

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Some proposes for writing a letter could be to communicate with someone or to possibly to keep a record. Letter writing could free slaves or for others to communicate with others for communication was restricted in that time.

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A letter is a way to communicate to people when they are not face to face. I have no idea how that ply din with the reconstruction era.

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The purpose of writing a letter is to stay and touch with people and talk to them because you might not see them all the time. It helped in the reconstruction era because slaves needed to stay in touch with there families.

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The purposes are to communicate to someone that is far away, or even to the future. Letters allowed freed slaves to communicate to their family members, so he or she can try to reunite because back in the 1800s, there were no other ways to communicate with people who are far away.

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The main  purpose for writing a letter is to keep in touch with people. It was able to help people stay united in a way, even when they were apart. They were like writing in a journal, only you would share that "Journal" with someone you know and/or trust.

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Communication is a big purpose for writing a letter. Getting or staying in touch with someone you love, or someone you need to talk to is mainly why people write letters. I think letter writing played a big role in the Reconstruction Era. People would have really needed to stay in touch with all the change happening.
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The purpose of writing a letter is to keep in touch with someone or to make a request.  I think writing letters was to inform people about what is going on. In the Reconstruction Era I think they wrote letters to communicate with the other slaves.

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since people didn't have the technology we have today in the reconstruction era, letters were basically the only thing people could use to communicate

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Writing a letter is a better way of understanding people, and what they are thinking. You can also stay in touch with letters. Letters are a great way of talking to people in the future. Letters are also a great way of talking about life.

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You can write a letter to keep in touch with someone or to tell them things. You can also write letters to someone to express your opinion or give them suggestions. During the Reconstruction Era, people would right letters to other people to keep each other informed about what is going on.
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some purposes for writing a letter is to keep in touch with somone
or inform somone about somthing