Art historians believe the image is the work of Matthew Brady, a famous 19th century photographer, or one of his apprentices. Brady shot well-known portraits of President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Gen. Robt. E. Lee…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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It really is haunting – this photo from 150 years ago. Here we are in 2010 with our first black president, and the Republican Party, the Party of Lincoln, has done everything possible to undermine anything he tries to do. The Republicans, the Tea Party, South Carolina politicians, the Oathkeepers, the Militias, have all come out of the woodwork with their thinly disguised klanism and racism – working against the country in every way possible at a time when we need to come together. Looking at this picture and where we came from should make us feel ashamed of our past, but also our present. I was disappointed in the 1960’s with ‘white flight’ and ‘home schooling.’ I’m embarassed by the petty racist politics of the 2000’s. It looks to me as if we’re doing everything possible to turn our success into failure and make a mockery of the American Experiment that cost Abraham Lincoln his life. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Haunting Photo of Slave Children Found in Carolina AtticAOL Newsby Mara GayJune 11, 2010 This rare photo found in a North Carolina attic depicts two slave children. In April, the photo was found at a moving sale in Charlotte, accompanied by a document detailing the sale of "John" for $1,150 in 1854. "I buy stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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moving sale in Charlotte, accompanied by a document detailing the sale of "John" for $1,150 in 1854.<\/p>\n