Research authenticates famed letter by ex-slave to old master
Slave Letter
In this Monday, June 25, 2012 photo, Jewell Wilson, foreground, great-grandson of former slave Jordan Anderson, holds a family directory as he poses with his son Jewell Wilson Jr., left, and his nephew Barry Mumford Wilson, in Dayton, Ohio. Anderson, who wrote a remarkable letter to his ex-master, was freed from a Tennessee plantation by Union troops in 1864 and spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)