Black History Month

Sometimes it takes the Sounds of Blackness to deliver you from your thoughts.

Sometimes it takes the Sounds of Blackness to deliver you from your thoughts.

Sometimes it takes the Sounds of Blackness to deliver you from your thoughts.

As we begin Black History Month, here’s a letter from 1865 making the rounds. In it, Jourdan Anderson, a former slave, responds to his former master Colonel P.H. Anderson, who had written to invite him back to the plantation — this time, with pay.