Blue_Tires
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Thu Jun-10-10 05:08 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
| 25. a few years back, the WaPo re-ran a series of audio interviews |
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and photographs of still-living former slaves on their website (I think this was circa 1940)...excellent trove of history...
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| -Rare photograph of children slaves found in attic |
Judi Lynn |
Jun-10-10 03:46 PM |
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I wonder what happened to them. |
Brickbat |
Jun-10-10 03:47 PM |
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I doubt we will ever know |
customerserviceguy |
Jun-10-10 04:04 PM |
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Yeah. |
Brickbat |
Jun-10-10 04:18 PM |
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but they know who took the picture |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 04:31 PM |
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Actually, there is a chance they could be traced |
theHandpuppet |
Jun-10-10 06:29 PM |
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I always feel the same way when I look at old photos or gravestones. I wonder who |
GreenPartyVoter |
Jun-10-10 10:17 PM |
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I thought the slave children were actually found in the attic! |
JuniperLea |
Jun-10-10 03:49 PM |
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They look so sad |
sharp_stick |
Jun-10-10 03:51 PM |
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It looks like the older boy has realized that one of them |
Warpy |
Jun-10-10 03:57 PM |
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it has brady as the photog so he probably was there and asked |
roguevalley |
Jun-10-10 04:18 PM |
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Mathew Brady hardly left Washington DC during the war. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Jun-10-10 04:33 PM |
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you could see his photographic plates being used in greenhouses |
roguevalley |
Jun-10-10 11:47 PM |
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Many early photographs by Brady and others, particularly of poor folks, shows |
LuckyLib |
Jun-11-10 01:18 AM |
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Photographs at that time were extremely expensive |
revolution breeze |
Jun-11-10 07:38 AM |
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Indeed. |
Matariki |
Jun-10-10 05:26 PM |
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I noticed that too. |
Delphinus |
Jun-11-10 06:24 AM |
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You may be reading too much into their facial expressions. |
surrealAmerican |
Jun-11-10 08:40 AM |
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If there was ever an iconic picture of slavery that is it. |
zeemike |
Jun-10-10 04:01 PM |
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you can feel their pain |
bdamomma |
Jun-10-10 08:03 PM |
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k/r |
Solly Mack |
Jun-10-10 04:09 PM |
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They look like brothers to me. Slavery - the original sin of the USA. nt |
thereismore |
Jun-10-10 04:15 PM |
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The original sin was stealing lands from Native Americans |
Mimosa |
Jun-10-10 04:33 PM |
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I thought about that too, but then I realized that the stealing of land and murder preceded the USA. |
thereismore |
Jun-11-10 11:15 AM |
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And slavery didn't? |
ieoeja |
Jun-11-10 11:29 AM |
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Yes, but slavery was codified explicitly in the US Constitution as lawful and factual. nt |
thereismore |
Jun-11-10 01:45 PM |
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the picture |
alfredo |
Jun-10-10 04:22 PM |
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They look like brothers. n/t |
Mimosa |
Jun-10-10 04:34 PM |
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They don't look too happy. |
alfredo |
Jun-10-10 04:43 PM |
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do you think they had any happy moments in their life ? |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 04:57 PM |
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Maybe before they were made to work in the fields. |
alfredo |
Jun-10-10 05:03 PM |
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They were probably strapped to their mothers' backs |
Arugula Latte |
Jun-11-10 11:21 AM |
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A few days ago I read the Libertarian justification for slavery. |
alfredo |
Jun-11-10 11:30 AM |
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Mathew Brady was one of the "people of interest" my kids reported about |
demtenjeep |
Jun-10-10 04:24 PM |
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What a treasure- I hope the decendants can somehow be traced |
Tailormyst |
Jun-10-10 04:38 PM |
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Send it to those "Confederate History Month" fuckers. |
Warren DeMontague |
Jun-10-10 04:44 PM |
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+1000 |
theHandpuppet |
Jun-10-10 06:20 PM |
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. |
fascisthunter |
Jun-11-10 11:18 AM |
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Yep. The Confederate Boosters make me sick to my stomach. |
Arugula Latte |
Jun-11-10 11:22 AM |
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are there other pics like this anywhere ? |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 04:45 PM |
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Yes. |
Mimosa |
Jun-10-10 04:58 PM |
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Thanks so much for this valuable resource!!! |
activa8tr |
Jun-10-10 05:16 PM |
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More here for you |
dipsydoodle |
Jun-11-10 04:43 AM |
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the girl in this pic really stands out to me |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 05:35 PM |
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Thanks for posting the photo. The child looks very care-worn already. n/t |
Judi Lynn |
Jun-11-10 03:21 AM |
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Double posted, dupe. Sorry. n/t |
Judi Lynn |
Jun-11-10 03:22 AM |
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Thnks for posting that |
GreenPartyVoter |
Jun-10-10 10:20 PM |
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Beautiful, dignified people. nt |
thereismore |
Jun-11-10 11:18 AM |
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"Slave with his dog" 1937. sb Former Slave. |
unc70 |
Jun-11-10 11:31 AM |
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a few years back, the WaPo re-ran a series of audio interviews |
Blue_Tires |
Jun-10-10 05:08 PM |
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Those audio interviews were done through one of FDRs programs. |
bobbolink |
Jun-10-10 07:55 PM |
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you saw it? |
Blue_Tires |
Jun-10-10 10:14 PM |
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these ? |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 10:20 PM |
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yeah...thanks! |
Blue_Tires |
Jun-12-10 09:55 AM |
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I remember reading about it, and how it was funded through one of FDRs programs. |
bobbolink |
Jun-11-10 06:59 PM |
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Photo and documents |
safeinOhio |
Jun-10-10 05:03 PM |
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Actually, adjusted for inflation, he was sold for about $30,000 |
Xithras |
Jun-10-10 05:38 PM |
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In some ways, thats not so different from now. Corporations do the same. |
bobbolink |
Jun-10-10 07:58 PM |
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no, it's still different |
JI7 |
Jun-11-10 03:52 AM |
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Fascinating to find such an item. It brings up so many questions like |
activa8tr |
Jun-10-10 05:13 PM |
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+1 |
eShirl |
Jun-11-10 04:58 AM |
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Sort of an aside |
Matariki |
Jun-10-10 05:25 PM |
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they were slaves and their life was very much based on that |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 05:30 PM |
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Good points |
Matariki |
Jun-10-10 05:34 PM |
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So rich white guys are still making money off slavery |
SmileyRose |
Jun-10-10 06:34 PM |
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isn't he the guy who bought the pic ? i think he collects pics from history |
JI7 |
Jun-10-10 07:38 PM |
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Agreed. |
proteus_lives |
Jun-10-10 07:41 PM |
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how much money has he made?? eom |
yawnmaster |
Jun-11-10 04:59 AM |
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You can tell what race(s)/ethnicity(ies) he is by that photo? |
eShirl |
Jun-11-10 05:03 AM |
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you mean a few drops of brown blood? |
SmileyRose |
Jun-11-10 05:28 PM |
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Pretty sick, isn't it? n/t |
activa8tr |
Jun-11-10 07:29 AM |
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That guy's not caucasian. Hating whites doesn't help anything. |
laureloak |
Jun-11-10 07:48 AM |
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Not hatin' just sayin' |
SmileyRose |
Jun-11-10 05:29 PM |
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Poor babies |
skygazer |
Jun-10-10 11:55 PM |
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I doubt John from document was one of the boys in the picture |
unc70 |
Jun-11-10 12:05 PM |
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