Letter From a Freedman to His Old Master
"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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Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."
Jourdon Anderson. 1865

OPENING I am A Man of Letters. I’ve been reading lately, and I have found some words I would like to share. Today, “Letter From a Freedman to His Old Master†by Jourdon Anderson. Anderson was born in 1825 and died in 1907. He was a former slave. “Letter From a Freedman to His Old Master†was …