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Book cover for Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Early suffrage meetings were heavily populated with mediums and trance speakers; in some places it was difficult to find suffragists who weren’t also Spiritualists. Spiritualism had given many of these women practice and confidence in ...more
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Rebecca Solnit
“Such speech aims to tranquilize and disempower the populace, to keep us isolated and at home, seduced into helplessness, just as more direct tyrannies seek to terrify citizens into isolation.”
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Rebecca Solnit
“Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.”
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

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