Topic: letters

That Former Slave Who Wrote His Ex-Master Never Went Back to Him

Kottle

Some wonderful Internet sleuthing has given a happy ending to the feel-good Internet story of the week -- the one in which an ex-master asked an ex-slave to return to him and the ex-slave refused.

By Ray Gustini

Sep 8, 2011

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