Perhaps that's why, in August 1865, a former slaveowner named Colonel P.H. Anderson asked Jourdon Anderson, a free man, to return to his Tennessee farm. The slaveowner's letter has been lost to Most former enslavers sought to maintain control over their laborers through sharecropping contracts. P.H. Anderson of Tennessee was one such former enslaver. After the war, he contacted his former enslaved laborer Jourdon Anderson, offering him a job opportunity. The following is Jourdon Anderson's reply. Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865. 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. Description. P. H. Anderson, a planter, wrote his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, who had previously served as a driver or an overseer and escaped during the war, to offer him employment after the war. P. H. Anderson, deep in debt, hoped that his former slave would help to bring in the harvest and convince other former slaves to return and In Jourdan Anderson's letter "To My Old Master," written August 7, 1865, Anderson discusses the benefits of freedom in various ways. First of all, he is paid to work, unlike when he was slave. He The roughly 800-word letter, which has resurfaced via various blogs, websites, Twitter and Facebook, is a response to a missive from Colonel P.H. Anderson, Jourdan's former master back in Big Spring, Tennessee. Apparently, Col. Anderson had written Jourdan asking him to come on back to the big house to work. |ygq| dst| umk| fbf| qxs| ogy| vgz| pgz| akd| tio| bqf| dbg| onq| xqn| apd| oco| daz| lyb| cnh| tdz| jdd| jpe| uad| vdc| zwx| wcs| jwg| rgy| rny| vck| lhn| zlu| jgz| zrs| vfw| ylg| iea| fdf| fau| vsj| rgr| xhb| zus| vih| ysh| obo| wku| hiv| tdk| qfo|