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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 14:58:24 GMT -5
After the Civil War, a plantation owner - Colonel Anderson - pleaded for his freed slave to return to help bring in the crop. Financial ruin lay ahead if the fields weren't harvested. Below is the letter Jourdon Anderson wrote back from his home in Ohio to his former master: Colonel Anderson, having failed to attract his former slaves back, sold the land for a pittance to try to get out of debt. Two years later he was dead at the age of 44. Prior to 2006, historian Raymond Winbush tracked down the living relatives of the Colonel in Big Spring, reporting that they "are still angry at Jordan for not coming back," knowing that the plantation was in serious disrepair after the war. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/free-mans-1865-letter-his-former-slave-owner-180957278/
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Post by agog on Jan 10, 2018 22:01:21 GMT -5
Interesting letter.
I wonder if Jourdan's children and all (or even most/many) of his descendants got an education and formed virtuous habits.
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Post by ursus on Jan 11, 2018 8:12:50 GMT -5
Interesting letter. I wonder if Jourdan's children and all (or even most/many) of his descendants got an education and formed virtuous habits. FWIW, here is his grave site www.findagrave.com/memorial/84366613.
In the 1900 census he is listed as a retired butler. His son Valentine 's occupation is listed as physician, so I assume he got an education. I can't comment on virtuous habits. Here is the census record www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6PW7-V4M?i=3&cc=1325221. You probably have to get a free Family Search account to see it. There is a lot more information about him on Family Search and probably elsewhere.
This is probably the most off-topic post I have ever made anywhere.
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Post by agog on Jan 11, 2018 13:50:51 GMT -5
Yeah Ursus, this is a bit off topic but it is in the Subjects of Interest to Forum Members thread so I thinks it's Kosher.
Your post was a great addition to the conversation. Thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 14:55:35 GMT -5
Interesting letter. I wonder if Jourdan's children and all (or even most/many) of his descendants got an education and formed virtuous habits. Yeah, those uppity blacks, who do they think they are...
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