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Re:A freed slave's most polite fuck-you to his former master by yread on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @03:02AM (#3532319)
$11680 in 1865 is $164391.37 in 2010 inflation adjusted dollars according to [1]. But when considering monthly wage of $25 (although it includes clothing and food and might have been even under "minimal wage") it was probably much more. The ratio is perhaps closer to 20:1

[1] www.westegg.com/inflation

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