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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

Portrait of Alcha Ellen Hinkle, a Kansas woman, circa 1904. She’d have been sixteen or seventeen at the time.

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