MLK Day 2010: Letter From a Freedman
This year for Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to feature a letter written in 1865 by a former slave to his former master. I've linked it before elsewhere in honor of Juneteenth, but it's pretty extraordinary. This comes via Facing South (in turn via Ta-Nehisi Coates). Facing South describes it as a:...letter by freedman Jourdon Anderson of Dayton, Ohio. He was writing in response to an