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When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
‘Victorian Child’ photo I found in an antique shop. I fell in love with how awkwardly perfect this photo is. I would really like to learn more, but I don’t know where to start.
My Great Grandmother Violet in 1919, London
100 years after WW1 (New York Times, 2014)
Image from 1945 of Mussolini and his facist regimes public humiliation
Prohibitionist propaganda poster, late 1910s.
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Adolf Hitler meets a group of Hitlerjugend in the chancellery garden during his last public appearance on camera. He would kill himself a little more than a month later (20 March 1945)
My late grandmother. Photo from the 40s. Boy do I miss her laugh. 🥹
A Frenchwoman, believed to have been a prostitute, has her head shaved by French civilians to publicly mark her for reportedly collaborating with the Nazis (August 29, 1944)
A refugee carrying his cholera-stricken wife away from the fighting during the Bangladesh War, 1971.
Anti-American propaganda, Vietnam.(2020)
My very stylish Grandmother, I called her Bama – Ohio, likely in the 1950s
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