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.
Interesting framing, but it reminds me of washerwomen in the US, matchgirls in England, and even earlier organized walkouts.
I love telling the story of the Atlanta washerwoman’s strike in class…
Crossposting here, for the history lesson that is included in the dialogue:
The history textbook and lessons in this report led me to crosspost it here:
And here is an article from the late 1970s about Soviet computing…
Thanks! This has reminded me that Red Plenty has been on my reading list for a while.
Oh, I need to get that book, too.
It’s worth thinking about how few people who survived the Holocaust are still alive…