Letter from freed slave to former master draws attention

[MrScorpio]

A newly discovered letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master is creating a buzz. Letters of Note explains that in August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee wrote to his former slave Jourdan Anderson, requesting that Jourdan return to work on his farm.

In the time since escaping from slavery, Anderson had become emancipated, moved to Ohio where he found paid work and was now supporting his family. The letter turned up in the August 22 edition of the New York Daily Tribune. Some excerpts:

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/letter-freed-slave-former-master-draw-attention-151653952.html

[Live and Learn]

1. Great Letter

But already posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002248661

[Luminous Animal]

2. This was posted earlier and deserves a repost. And definitely deserves to be read

in its entirety. Not only for the message but for the brilliance of the sarcasm and the pathos that it expresses.

[BlueIris]

3. Fascinating. Thanks for posting. nt

[JCMach1]

4. That was the definition of PWNage

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. The very last line is the best.

[tanyev]

5. The Tennessee Tea Party will make sure that never gets into the history books.

[UTUSN]

7. R#19 & K n/t

[Yo_Mama]

8. The letter in full on this blog

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html

That's a great blog, btw.

[raouldukelives]

9. That was great! nt

[Quantess]

10. What a find!