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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
“You can drive fast, BUT…” USSR, 1970s
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My great grandmother on her wedding day in 1942.
“Men can fall, but the flag will never fall” Nazi Germany, 1945
The girls boldly sit on the tractor and give the soldiers a confident order: – Beat the fascists boldly and skillfully. And we will replace you. USSR 1941
Norwegian SS recruitment poster, 1940s
My dad – 1958 – could have been a coca cola advert
British soldier receiving painful injection from a nurse along the Russian front
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