Jourdon Anderson: Letter “To My Old Master”

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Jourdon Anderson:Letter “To My Old Master”
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After thirty-two years enslaved, Jourdon Anderson and his wife, Amanda, escaped in 1864 when Union Army soldiers freed them from the plantation on which they had been held captive. They moved to Ohio, and a year later, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Anderson received a letter from his former owner, Patrick Henry Anderson, asking him to return to the plantation. Anderson declined, and his deadpan reply, dated August 7, 1865, was reprinted in numerous newspapers.

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