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To My Old Master

A former slave writes to his old owner and tells him to get stuffed

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Shaun Usher
Jan 28, 2022
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Using a calendar and some very simple mathematics I’ve just calculated that exactly 10 years have passed since I first featured the following letter on the old Letters of Note blog, leading to some 3 million people visiting the website in the space of 24hrs to read about this incredible piece of correspondence and the man behind it. At the risk of sound…

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