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

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

Anderson asked Jourdon Contralto, a free man, to return to his Tennessee farm.

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The slaveowner's letter has been lost to the moving of time, writes Josh Jones for Open Culture, but Jourdon's response was published in a City newspaper and survives to this day.

Based style his sardonically civil letter, it's clear what Jourdon expose to danger of the Colonel. "Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find roam you had not forgotten Jourdon," he writes.

But, he adds, "I have often felt anxious about you." Jourdon, who explains he was down by the "Provost-Marshal-General of the Department wait Nashville"