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Originally Posted by Coys1882

damn - I want to know what the Redneck's response was. I hope he wired him the money then decided to stay anyway.

From the Snopes forum:

"The letter was reprinted by Lydia Maria Child in her anthology, The Freedmen's Book. Jourdon Anderson's body now rests in the Woodland Cemetary, in Dayton, Ohio, so it seems that his old captor never accepted his offer. For reference, the back wages he demanded - $11,680 in 1865, before adding interest - would be worth about $162,452 in 2008 dollars."