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Rad Geek, to-day:
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.”
Rad Geek, to-day:
Happy Kalends of Sextilis y’all. In honor of the event, I’ll be reading Plutarch's Life of Sertorius.
Rad Geek, to-day:
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.
Not just better food — there was also a single room and air conditioning involved. In any case, I am totally on Yuan Yuan's side here. If a bunch of apes are going to lock you in a cage so they can gawk at you and try and breed you so that they can gawk at all your children, too, then you may as well do your best to exploit their weird fetishes and fertility cults at every opportunity and get whatever you can from it.
Well played, ma'am.
Panda Accused Of Faking Pregnancy To Get Better Food
Keepers at the Taipei Zoo were excited. Resident giant panda Yuan Yuan was exhibiting signs of pregnancy -- an all-too-elusive event among captive pan…
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