{"id":1116,"date":"2012-02-03T03:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/03\/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:15","slug":"what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/03\/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to the former slave that wrote his old master?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1111438918\/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his-old-master\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1111438918\/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his-old-master\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/bog9Fhr5Z6tzfJIw1GzT5zl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>You know that letter from former slave Jourdon Anderson to his old master that&rsquo;s been going around? First of all, it&rsquo;s good and you should read it:\u00a0http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/01\/to-my-old-master.html<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/02\/what-happened-to-the-former-slave-that-wrote-his-old-master\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via kottke.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesYou know that letter from former slave Jourdon Anderson to his old master that&rsquo;s been going around? First of all, it&rsquo;s good and you should read it:\u00a0http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/01\/to-my-old-master.htmlVia kottke.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1340,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/23\/slavery-a-21st-century-evil-al-jazeera-english\/","url_meta":{"origin":1116,"position":0},"title":"Slavery: A 21st Century Evil &#8211; Al Jazeera English","author":"aslam","date":"November 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesToday, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. 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