A Letter to My Old Master

[Hortical]

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).

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01...ld-master.html

[Karl]

Nice tracing! ...no yuh ole @#$%^&*&^%$#@!!!! ...a waan lickout yuh %$#&^%$#!!!

[Muadib]

Mental slavery is more insidious...

[Baddaz]

wow... powerful... might cannot read and write but man anuh fool...