“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.”

Read this incredible letter from a former slave to his owner, par David Matthews de Fusion

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Back in 1865, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave Jourdon Anderson to ask that Anderson return and come work for him. The colonel said he missed Anderson and promised him his freedom and a living wage, and a place for his family to stay. Anderson, who had by this time already settled in Ohio, was having none of that and sent a response (reportedly dictated) that just ethers his former captor.