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Jordan Anderson or Jourdon Anderson (December 1825 – April 15, 1905) was an African-American former slave noted for an 1865 letter he dictated, later titled by publishers as "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master".
Nov 16, 2015 · 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.
Mar 14, 2016 · Jourdon Anderson, a formerly enslaved person, responds to a request from his former master to return to work for him.
This letter was dictated by a “freedman” Jourdan (or Jordan) Anderson (1825 – 1907) to his former owner Colonel P.H. Anderson. Anderson’s letter was first published in the Cincinnati ...
Jul 15, 2012 · Jordan Anderson's collaborator — to whom he reportedly dictated the letter — was a Dayton banker named Valentine Winters. An abolitionist who once hosted Abraham Lincoln at his mansion, Winters regarded the letter as excellent propaganda, according to Finkenbine.
Feb 26, 2022 · Jordan Anderson was a freed slave living in Dayton, OH with his family after the Civil War. He was owned by a man named PH Anderson in Big Spring, Tennessee. After receiving a letter from his former slave master asking him to return, Anderson responded with a letter of his own.
Feb 5, 2019 · On August 7, 1865 Jordan Anderson (aka Jourdan Anderson and Jordon Anderson) wrote to Colonel Patrick Henry Anderson in Big Spring, Tennessee. A year earlier, Jordan had been released from Anderson’s control after 32 years of enslavement.
