Letters of Note: To My Old Master

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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).

This is wonderful, and I feel better having read it.

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   Pure, blazing class.

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    (Transcription.)

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    BEST. LETTER. EVER.

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    This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read.

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    is wonderful, and I feel better having read it.

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