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Kim Georgeamazing letters of note - especially the follow up to it too http://t.co/DbRyyzbk
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16 Feb 12
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Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
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I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well.
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Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
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Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
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I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters.
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You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
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Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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13 Feb 12
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Bette Lou Higginsletter of former slave Jourdon Anderson to his ex-master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, who asked him to return.
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Mr MaherIn August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — 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).
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12 Feb 12
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Yuri Baranov"In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — 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).
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camryl9In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — 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).
Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do make sure you read to the end. -
06 Feb 12
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barnishSay howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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05 Feb 12
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04 Feb 12
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Jenny BrownA letter written in 1865 by a former Tennessee slave who relocated to Dayton, Ohio. The letter is to his former master, a colonel, who had requested him to return to TN to work for him again. This letter is nothing short of BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!
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03 Feb 12
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david stong"To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee- Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this,..."
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02 Feb 12
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fizzixdudeFormer slave sends a letter to her old master, writes better prose than most undergrads.
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we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to.
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Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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Christina DiMicelli"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).
Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do make sure you read to the end." -
Megan GraffLetter from a freed slave to his former master. Brillant. http://t.co/88VnTtrf via @NickKristof
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Mal BoothRT @LettersofNote: Amazing letter from an ex-slave to his former owner in 1865, after being asked to return to work: http://t.co/GKZdvr81
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kris james"Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
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Wanda Terral@wterral: Wonderful ==> “RT @NormalGeo: One of the best letters EVER! It's written by a slave to his former master. http://t.co/SR2OJfGL” #fb
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Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
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Ms FaustA letter from a former slave to his former master...after the master writes and ask him to come work for him on the old plantation in Tennessee
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Sue Martinletter emancipation informative text persuasion?
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31 Jan 12
Steph PearsonNow this is how you write a letter. http://t.co/SHimLpAT (via @nealbrennan)
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k schnappIn 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 here.
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lisapeBest "FU" letter ever! Former slave responds to former master asking him to work for him again. http://t.co/Lk01zUPm #lettersofnote
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OnurNever known a response like the one to yesterday's letter (http://t.co/DQWfZ6gK). 350k visitors in 12hrs. If you've emailed, bear with me.
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trish dowerRT: @LettersOfNote Amazing letter from an ex-slave to his former owner in 1865, after being asked to return to work: http://t.co/rynSLzxX
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Molly MyersNever known a response like the one to yesterday's letter (http://t.co/DQWfZ6gK). 350k visitors in 12hrs. If you've emailed, bear with me.
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Kelly LittleMost AMAZING letter from ex-slave to his former owner in 1865, after being asked to return to work: http://t.co/585PqQsS via @LettersofNote
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Peter BruinsmaA freed slave's most polite fuck-you to his former master: http://t.co/bRpjcIl4
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Ole EkrollRT @lettersofnote: Amazing letter from an ex-slave to his former owner in 1865, after being asked to return to work: http://t.co/xoQWQuX7
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30 Jan 12
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Fire crackerAs to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
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