January 31, 2012 02:14 pm PST
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Letter from ex-slave to ex-master, on occasion of a request to return to work
Jourdon Anderson, an ex-slave, penned this letter to his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee in 1865, after the Colonel wrote and asked him to return to service as a paid worker. The letter starts out seeming like a heartbreaking example of Stockholm Syndrome, as Jourdon Anderson recounts several wartime atrocities that [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0x3jNpJ6ESA/letter-from-ex-slave-to-ex-mas.html
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