In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated).
read the letter here
In a somewhat ironic term of events you could say the former master was owned.
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somewhat ironic term...events you could say the
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And here is The Best Thing You Will Read All Night (TM).
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