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Every plantation colony faced the same social control problem; each required a buffer social control stratum to stand between the mass of slaves and the numerically tiny class of slaveholders. In the Americas there was no such historically
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
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JC’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at JC’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Fiction, Food, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science fiction, and Sports
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