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packman

(16,296 posts) Tue Jul 7, 2015, 04:39 PM Jul 2015

Posted a piece earlier about a former slave being asked by his former master to return to the farm where he was held in bondage:

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

Here's a follow-up as to what happened to Mr. Anderson . Turns out his fondest wish that his children learn to read and write came to pass--"The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits"

http://kottke.org/12/02/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his-old-master