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“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the “slaves” of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe—in other words, like most of the population of Europe.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“Thus far Lucas had spent $473,000 of his own money on The Star Wars. He knew this dessert would take far more ingredients than could be bought for $8.3 million. That was a fairly low figure; the average studio comedy at the time, with no special effects, cost around $20 million. How on Earth could Lucas realize his vision on that budget?”
― How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
― How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
“From time to time, whites were involved in the slave resistance. As early as 1663, indentured white servants and black slaves in Gloucester County, Virginia, formed a conspiracy to rebel and gain their freedom.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“In spite of such preconceptions about blackness, in spite of special subordination of blacks in the Americas in the seventeenth century, there is evidence that where whites and blacks found themselves with common problems, common work, common enemy in their master, they behaved toward one another as equals. As one scholar of slavery, Kenneth Stampp, has put it, Negro and white servants of the seventeenth century were “remarkably unconcerned about the visible physical differences.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Scott Wilson’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Scott Wilson’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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