odds & ends | Letter from Freed Slave to Former Master Draws Attention

About: allie. 25. north carolina.

i blog about my city, food, pop culture, art, politics (i'm liberal. libertarians can leave now), anxiety, spirituality, and my body. i have been called weird, a nerd, and a hipster. i am not a hipster (sincerity trumps being cool, and i am definitely a sincere nerd).

i like art, taking pictures of my food and my feet, music, sunshine, creating, reading, exploring, adventures, dancing, gastronomy, yoga, friendship, new boot goofin', yacht rock, pop culture, being ridiculous, zombies, bad horror films, the internet, being fabulous, being snarky, soup spoons, being nerdy, and drinking wine + champagne + gin.

tv shows: mad men, buffy the vampire slayer, angel, my so-called life, happy endings, how i met your mother (ted mosby is a douchebag), parks and rec, and community.

favorite bands: creedence clearwater revival, hall and oates, iron and wine, stevie wonder, marvin gaye, queen, electric light orchestra, fiona apple, michael jackson, hammer no more the fingers and the doobie brothers.

leslie knope is my spirit animal.

in real life i am a photographer.

Letter from Freed Slave to Former Master Draws Attention

We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

(Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)