"There Was Never Any Pay Day for the Negroes"

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Four months after the end of the American Civil War, Colonel P.H. Anderson wrote his ex-slave, Jourdon Anderson, offering him a "good chance" on the old plantation. This was Jourdon's response.

See also:

• Creation of the Jim Crow South
• Slavery Timeline
• The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850