7 Stages of Grief (Kubler-Ross) & Stages of Sussex Success
Ivy Barrow
03/10/21
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Response from a Former Slave to a Letter from his Former Master – SGUK Episode 13
A newly discovered letter from a freed former slave to his onetime master created a buzz in 2012 . 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. An Excerpt:-
"Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they...