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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
Danish resistance fighters stealthily confront German occupiers, 1945
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“For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship” youth festival poster, DPRK, Pyongyang, 1989
NATO PsyOP leaflet from Kosovo War late 1990s
Here lies an unknown English Lieutenant who died in Air Battle 1941
My great-grandmother’s great-grandfather
USSR officials attempting in vain to resuscitate the dead crew of Soyuz 11 after it’s reentry. All three crew members were posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medals and given state funerals, June 3rd, 1971
My great grandparents and their children. There were three more yet to be born. My grandmother is the baby on her mother’s lap.
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