Rad Geek, to-day:
To-day: Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
official state media for a secessionist republic of one
Misc
To-day: Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
Anarchy in the Havana Times
The Other Enemies of the Revolution
I'€Â™m an anarchist and I don't feel any desire to save the Cuban Revolution as I'€Â™ve known it. But I'™m not a counterrevolutionar…
Jimmy Roque Martinez @ havanatimes.org
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage, Ch. 8, “The Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions;” Ch. 9, “Slavery in the Nineteenth Century South, I: From Contradiction to Defense;” and Ch. 10, “Slavery in the Nineteenth Century South, II: From Slaveholder Treatment and the Nature of Labor to Culture, Sex and Religion, and Free Blacks.”
And then, for a treat, Plutarch, Parallel Lives, “Life of Alcibiades.”
Happy Kalends of Sextilis y’all. In honor of the event, I’ll be reading Plutarch's Life of Sertorius.
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Chapter 3, The Origins of Antiblack Racism in the New World and Chapter 4, How Africans Became Integral to New World History.