Black History Special: The Jordan Anderson Letter

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. WYSO producer Basim Blunt talks to Dayton historian Dr. Larry Crowe about the famous Jordan Anderson letter.

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