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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
US soldiers play a game of darts during their free time in England, awaiting D-Day, June 1944.
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With a glass of Guinness as table companion, it’s a meal for the gods. 1955
Grandma and her Twin Sister, 1925
“No God here!” Soviet Union, 1975
Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1943. Bodies of Canadian soldiers lying among wrecked landing craft and Churchill tank.
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay’s 35-year CIA-backed dictator, days after his overthrow, 1989. A pedophile who murdered & tortured thousands of dissidents & harbored Nazis like Josef Mengele, he ruled longer than any Latin-American dictator beside Castro. He died at 94 years old a free man. (2048×1930)
Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse toward one of the ovens, Dachau Germany, c. May, 1945
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