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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
1983 Soviet Union stamp. “The righteous act of the Arabs of Palestine will prevail” is the translation.
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Adolf Hitler in a class photo in 1901 (back row, farthest right)
ATF agent John Osburg with a gun and a Nazi flag confiscated from Operation Red Dog conspirators. The conspirators were white supremacists trying to sail to Dominica and stage a paid coup there. April 1981
Granny, probably 1946ish. She was probably about 20 here.
1972 antisemitic USSR poster depicting Jews as capitalists
column of Italian,German, Romanian and Hungarian soldiers retreating in the Russian steppe after the defeat of Stalingrad, Eastern Front – January 1943
“DON’T COMMIT A CRIME” A warning poster at a Puregold supermarket in the Philippines, 2020
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