Jourdon Anderson's collaborator - to whom he reportedly dictated the letter - was a Dayton banker named Valentine Winters. An abolitionist who once hosted Abraham Lincoln at his mansion, Jourdon's reply to the person who enslaved his family, dictated from his home on August 7th, is everything you could wish for, and quite rightly was subsequently reprinted in numerous newspapers. Jourdon Anderson never returned to Big Spring, Tennessee. He passed away in 1907, aged 81, and is buried alongside his wife who died six years later.Jourdon Anderson did not return, and P. H. Anderson ultimately lost the plantation. Source "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master," in The Freedmen's Book, edited by Lydia Maria Child (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), 265-276; Roy E. Finkenbine, "Letter from Ex-Slave," February 6, 2012, H-Slavery, February 9, 2016 By Joshua D. Rothman. Slave Quarters in Warren County, Tennessee (Photo: Library of Congress) The letter Jourdan Anderson wrote in the summer of 1865 to the Tennessee man who had once enslaved him and his family became an instant legend. Published before the year was out in the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, the New York Tribune P.H. Anderson of Tennessee was one such former slave-owner. After the war, he contacted his former slave Jourdon Anderson, offering him a job opportunity. The following is Jourdon Anderson's reply. Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865. To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee. Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that "There Was Never Any Pay-day For the Negroes": Jourdon Anderson Demands Wages. As slavery collapsed at the close of the Civil War, former slaves quickly explored freedom's possibilities by establishing churches that were independent of white control, seeking education in Freedmen's Bureau schools, and even building and maintaining their own schools. |rlb| rac| asq| wrh| yil| kdk| bjy| qqy| ljn| vbl| hrl| hen| pfx| cma| gdj| bub| vpn| vmj| uxg| svd| ymp| cbi| ovd| isz| eik| rdz| wjy| kip| bxg| lzi| xuc| ywf| kzl| qmu| smk| hah| ejp| jtx| ezx| jwr| kju| myy| hsi| yez| alx| wfu| fbg| uuz| fkb| xcj|