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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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61% Informative

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.

VR Score

46

Informative language

36

Neutral language

77

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

65

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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