Posted on 02/01/2012 6:45:08 AM PST by C19fan
A fascinating letter has emerged from a one-time slave to his former master in reply to being invited back to work on the farm where he spent more than 30 years in servitude. Jourdon Anderson wrote to Colonel P.H. Anderson in August 1865, explaining that since he had been emancipated, he had moved his family from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, was being paid for his labour and could support his family. According to an edition of the New York Daily Tribune published at the time, Jourdon Anderson dictated the letter to give his weighty and fitting response.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Looks like a lawyer was involved. He asks that his back wages be sent to one. That’s who probably transcribed it.
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