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For much of America's history, slavery was "omnipresent, from the economy to foreign policy, from the pulpit to the halls of Congress, from westward expansion to the educational system," writes Lonnie Bunch, the director of the African-American History and Culture Museum.

Perhaps that's why, in August , a former slaveowner named Colonel P.H.

Anderson asked Jourdon Anderson, a free man, to return to his Tennessee farm. The slaveowner's letter has been lost to the passage of time, writes Josh Jones for Open Culture, but Jourdon's response was published in a Cincinnati newspaper and survives to this day.

Based on his sardonically civil letter, it's clear what Jourdon thought of the Colonel.

"Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon," he writes. But, he adds, "I have often felt uneasy about you." Jourdon, who explains he was freed by the "Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville"