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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
Benito Mussolini’s corpse laying in a pine wood coffin, 1945
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Ukrainian nationalists and Uncle Sam // Soviet Union // 1950s
“Summit for Democracy,” China Daily News, 2021
Gorbachev and Bush about to share a meal on board the Soviet cruise ship “Maksim Gorkiy” in Marsaxlokk, Malta. Shortly before the declaration of the end of the Cold War. 2 December 1989
Kenyans returning Bibles in crates to the British colonial office in an East German cartoon from 1953, with the caption, “Here, we are giving you your Bibles back, now give us our land back.”
Roguish gents, circa 1850s.
“Hitler the Liberator” – Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1942)
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