Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-22-2010

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• "There Was Never Any Pay-day For the Negroes": Jourdon Anderson Demands Wages
  After the American civil war, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Tennessee wrote to his ex-slave Jourdon Anderson, inviting him to come back and work for him. Jourdan writes back and tells him where he can stick it.
  (tags: history USA)
• Billy Bragg backs Liberal Democrats as Labour 'take voters for granted' | Election
  Asked for his thoughts on the General Election, Bragg replied cryptically: "I think it's like a big wobbly sausage and a really strange pair of trousers and the sausage sticking out of the front of the trousers. And people saying: 'I don't know, is that a sausage sticking out of those trousers or is it a k ?"'
  (tags: election politics)

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

That letter is fantastic! Absolutely wonderful.