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‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation | Aeon Videos

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The US actor Laurence Fishburne reads a letter from Jourdon Anderson , who escaped slavery in 1865 and was living in freedom in Ohio .
In his writing, Anderson responds to letter from his former master, Colonel P H Anderson , asking if he might return to Tennessee to work for him again as a freedman.
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