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"To my old master", a letter from 1865, written by Jourdon Anderson, a former slave, to his former owner in response to the master's letter begging for his slave's return

Jourdon was a comedian, for sure.

Read, quite drolly, by Laurence Fishburne
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In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to own...

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From The Smithsonian Magazine:
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