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Description	English: A dictated letter to his former slave master as it appeared in contemporary newspapers. It has been considered a Mark Twain-style piece of brilliant sarcasm even through it came from an illiterate ex-slave.
Date	17 August 1865
Source	New York Tribune, Tuesday August 22, 1865
Author	As was dictated to the Cincinnati Commercial by former slave Jordan Anderson (various spellings can be found)

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	05:27, 17 July 2012		580 × 650 (209 KB)	Dougie WII~commonswiki (talk \| contribs)

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