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A Rolling Crone: The Scarred Back of a Slave Named Gordon
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Friday, October 2, 2009. The Scarred Back of a Slave Named Gordon. On page 14 of Sept. 20’s Book Review, The New York Times. Published a shocking photograph of a slave with a horribly scarred back to illustrate a review of “Deliver Us from Evil”. Because I collect antique photos and have many dealing with slavery and the life of black people in the 1800's, I wrote to the Times the back story behind this photo, and the letter, somewhat abbreviated, is in the book review section this Sunday- Oct. 4. Showin...
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A Rolling Crone: The Shocking Story Behind the White Slave Photographs
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The Shocking Story Behind the White Slave Photographs. In my previous post,. I discussed the recently-in-the-news photos of the “White Slave Children of New Orleans” which portrayed only white-appearing slave children, not black ones. I explained how this apparently wrong-minded and politically incorrect practice of the Abolitionists had originated nearly a decade earlier with a daguerreotype of a white-skinned little girl named Mary Botts. According to Celia Caust-Ellenbogen of...
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A Rolling Crone: ALI PASHA & THE BLOODY HISTORY of IOANNINA
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Friday, April 24, 2015. ALI PASHA and THE BLOODY HISTORY of IOANNINA. Ali Pasha on the Lake of Ioannina. Outdoor restaurants, hammered metalwork, memorial to the Jews taken from Ioannina, the gate to the walled Turkish city. Tourists have not yet discovered this city, which is little changed from the days when Lord Byron visited the notorious tyrant Ali Pasha in the walled Turkish Kastro which still stands—its walls intact, its minarets and palaces now turned into museums. Ali’s wife was Kyria Vass...
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A Rolling Crone: Baby Countdown Ends on April 2.
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Saturday, April 4, 2015. Baby Countdown Ends on April 2. On April 2, the day of his birth, we opened a bottle of champagne that Papou Nick had brought for the occasion. After all, this was his grandson and namesake! Here is a sweet portrait of Mommy and Big Sister and Little Brother, taken on April 3, the second day of Nicholas' life. Somebody else took this photo of me holding our new grandchild. April 5, 2015 at 8:10 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. America's First (Sel...
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A Rolling Crone: A White Slave Girl “Mulatto Raised by Charles Sumner”
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Saturday, March 12, 2011. A White Slave Girl “Mulatto Raised by Charles Sumner”. The Story Behind the Photo. Please click on the photos to make them bigger.). For example, I wrote about the image of “The Scarred Back of a Slave Named Gordon” in a post dated Oct. 2, 2009. My information about that image was also printed in the New York Times book review of Oct. 4, 2009). On the back of each photo was printed: “ The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the educati...
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Zheph Skyre
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This comic updates on Tuesdays. WARNING: This web comic may contain adult language and violence. Matt Against The World. Chapter One: Another Day. Chapter Two: Poverty Meets Royalty. Chapter Three: The Chase. Chapter Six: The Invention. Morgan Fey as Jessica Rabbit. Everything on this website has been edited by Joshua D. Altobelli.
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Zheph Skyre
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This comic updates on Tuesdays. WARNING: This web comic may contain adult language and violence. Zheph Skyre is a young inventor with steam punk based devices in a world where practically anything can happen and most likely will. He has fought against the ridiculously strong mercanary Jahovac twice now. The strange girl Vanessa, a princess who has begun the "Goth" style, has assisted Zheph against the gang leader Jacques and the knights leader Sir Luther.
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Zheph Skyre
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This comic updates on Tuesdays. WARNING: This web comic may contain adult language and violence. Matt Against The World. July 9th, 2012. Welcome to the beginning of the web comic Zheph Skyre!
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A Rolling Crone: The Executioner’s Granddaughter
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Monday, May 28, 2012. The Executioner’s Granddaughter. The Story Behind the Photograph. Last week, as I was selecting antique photos of children with toys from my collection for my post of May 18, I picked up this one of a curly-headed moppet holding a toy lamb and a riding crop. It’s a CDV (carte de visite) a calling-card-sized photo that could have been taken any time from 1854 to 1900. The photographer is listed as “Samson” in Liege, Belgium. His son guillotined Marie Antoinette.). The Charles Henri S...
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A Rolling Crone: The Last Surviving Grouchy Grammar Nut
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The Last Surviving Grouchy Grammar Nut. It even got me elected to some "save our language" internet group which sends me Facebook messages now and then. Evidently there are a lot more grouchy grammar nuts out there than I thought! You know how, in World War II, the Marines employed Navajo code talkers to transmit radio messages because no one but another Navajo could understand the language? It's always an error in The New York Times. Even though, throughout the text of the piece...
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