🔴 🇺🇸 **‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation**

_“Delivering a withering and ultimately widely reprinted response, Anderson notes that he’s quite happy in Ohio, but may just consider if he’s given backpay for his 32 years of unpaid labour – with interest – both as fair compensation and as a sign of goodwill.”_

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