Saturday, November 8, 2014

The Original Siamese Twins Were Even Slave Owners


Why does history insist on breaking your heart?

There was more to Chang and Eng's story than white's ever let on, when I was a child, probably because white's thought it so normal:




And why not? They "counted as white" - just as whites "count" today - so what else was there to do?

Certainly not their own damned "canny and industrious" work,...

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