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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
Nazis cutting off earlocks of a Jewish man, Kraków 1939-1945
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Waffen-SS panzergrenadiers awaiting orders to initiate Operation Spring Awakening against superior Soviet forces – Hungary, March ’45
My beautiful mother when she was a young woman.
“The USSR is the shock brigade of the world proletariat!” USSR, 1930
Kind of like champagne. Champale Sparkling Malt Liquor. 1976
Italian prisoners captured during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943
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