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The Call to Toil

Posted by maestro on 6/25/2026, 4:24 pm

Image of Centenarian Willis Winn, born into slavery in Louisiana, holding the infamous horn once used to call enslaved people to toil.

Photograph taken by Russell Lee as part of The Federal Writers Project near Marshall, Texas in April 1939.

Re: The Call to Toil

Posted by Les on 6/27/2026, 12:29 pm, in reply to "The Call to Toil"

You can tell he’s a smart man. But he was forced to be a slave by the wicked forces. We should be “kingdomizing” the earth in line with God’s will for the planet. But the scarcity-minded powers-that-be prefer oppressing others over liberation.

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