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Mon, 12/27/2021 - 9:00am to 10:00am

In a combination WRR and Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond introduces and reads one of the lesser-known classics of American literature, a brilliantly ironic 1865 letter from a former slave, now living with his family in the North, to his former master. The master had tracked him down and written him, begging him to return to work in the post-Civil War South.

Former slave, Jourdon Anderson; image courtesy of Open Culture.

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