Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

That Time Jordan Anderson Sent His Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master (2017x164)


Air date: Jul 05, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our →’s rights, but also championed women’s rights, particularly playing an important part in the fight for the right for women to vote. Not everyone can be so accomplished as the great Frederick Douglas, but that doesn’t mean they don’t at times do noteworthy things. This brings us to the subject of today- one Jordan Anderson, a former slave who received a letter from his former master requesting he come back to work. Jordan’s reply was a deliciously satirical letter in which, when reading between the lines, he essentially told him in the most polite and eloquent way possible to kiss his derriere. Widely published throughout the United States and parts of Europe, the response made Jordan a media darling overnight. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/06/time-former-slave-wrote-letter-former-master-telling-go-hell/ Sources: http://archive.boston.com/news/education/articles/2012/07/14/how_did_ex_slaves_letter_to_master_come_to_be/ http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6790780585_466117fe88_o.jpg http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84366613 http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2012/07/15/Story-behind-letter-taunting-former-master-pieced-together.html http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93697963 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wGmD0Zl27GIC&pg=PA6&dq=jourdan+anderson&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI_5DC_bvNAhVMDMAKHcmsAlsQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=jourdan%20anderson&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Anderson Image Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#/media/File:Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jordan_Anderson_Image.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_army_nurses_-_interesting_sketches_and_photographs_of_over_one_hundred_of_the_noble_women_who_served_in_hospitals_and_on_battlefields_during_our_late_Civil_War,_1861-65_(1897)_(14762760355).jpg https

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