DescriptionLetter to my Old Master, from Jordan Anderson.jpg
English: A dictated letter to his former slave master as it appeared in contemporary newspapers. It has been considered a Mark Twain-style piece of brilliant sarcasm even through it came from an illiterate ex-slave.
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New York Tribune, Tuesday August 22, 1865
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As was dictated to the Cincinnati Commercial by former slave Jordan Anderson (various spellings can be found)
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