Thinking about history

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I’m sure they will be very surprised by the ungratefulness of the leopards, when they are being loaded into the boxcars bound for the camps.

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https://archive.ph/wDyuf

Scholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong.

For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. A growing body of research says otherwise.

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Interesting framing, but it reminds me of washerwomen in the US, matchgirls in England, and even earlier organized walkouts.

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I love telling the story of the Atlanta washerwoman’s strike in class…

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Crossposting here, for the history lesson that is included in the dialogue:

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The history textbook and lessons in this report led me to crosspost it here:

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And here is an article from the late 1970s about Soviet computing…

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Thanks! This has reminded me that Red Plenty has been on my reading list for a while.

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Oh, I need to get that book, too.

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