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"They were key to crushing revolts by enslaved people and buttressing enforcement of the slave codes, laws that maintain the racial hierarchy by banning black people's access to firearms, literacy, and unfettered movement. Southern delegates worried that placing control of the militias in the hands of Congress was risky because the federal government could decide not to fund or arm the state militias."

The Capitalism chapter especially explains the root of the behaviors re: the pencil in James

"The 1812 case Hezekiah Wood v. John Davis and Others concerned the situation of John Davis, a Black man born to a mother who had never been enslaved. According to the law of matrilineal descent, this should have established Davis's own freedom, but Wood, an enslaver who claimed Davis as his property, argued he had purchased Davis before his mother had proven her freedom. The Court sided with Wood." Terrible.

About the Declaration of Independence's mention of slave rebellions: "As several historians have pointed out, unlike modern writing, which often places the most important information toward the top, during the colonial period, listing this grievance last in the document indicated its importance."

"But the thing nobody ever tells you about the shepherd analogy is that shepherds always eat their sheep in the end."

More proof that this was written by a non-Bay Stater: "We drove out to the cape to celebrate."

EVEN MY PHONE AUTOCORRECTED THE CAPITALIZATION ON CAPE AND MADE IT "Cape" BECAUSE IT'S SO OBVIOUS

"At the same time, Macron seemed perfectly at ease in his interactions with Angela Merkel, 24 years his senior—exactly the same age as his wife, Brigitte Macron."

Houston goes on and on about irony marks from Anglophone countries but there is a mark (the temherte salq) straight from the Cradle of Humanity!

Buried in these chapters about other punctuation marks are details about yet more characters like the hedera!

This is the best explanation I've read for the difference between the em and the en dash, although now I feel like a hypen-minus abusing typographic fraud.

I remember the one character in Doonesbury (when I read it in the Sunday funnies) who was always an asterisk!

A plaque near his grave in Boston reads, "Winthrop dedicated his life to the creation of a model Christian community [and he] died at age 61 years in 1649, no doubt a disappointed man."

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[Winthrop] also argued that a code of colonial laws was prohibited by the charter, which required making "no laws repugnant to the laws of England." Bremer notes, quote much of what was done in New England was, indeed, repugnant to the laws of England, but as long as that practice was customary and not mandated by the state, the letter of the charter provision was not violated."

This explains A LOT.

Have to check this back in for now...

Checking it back in for now

It's adorable and hilarious that she's so baffled by this hug!

"I'm just telling you that just because that Neizghání taught you there was one way to skin a cat, it don't mean it's the only way to skin a cat. Or that a cat's gotta be skinned at all."

Ooooh!

Oh hey, teff!

SHE WALKS A LONELY ROAD

Interesting how Casiopea felt relieved at the anonymity of Mexico City where Martín felt insulted by it...

Black and white decorated house belonging to a man dressed in gray. NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS NO SYMBOLISM AHEAD

Did not expect Irish desertion during the Civil War in my book about the Oxford English Dictionary!

Wow what a contrast from General Campbell's whinging on page 159 to here with General Gálvez's leadership after Spanish ships were floating in the bay for a week!

I love when authors use accurate observations make fun of historical figures...

FINALLY THE RED TERROR!

It's not like my favorite story when I was about 4 that I asked my dad to tell over and over was from this time or my main reason for picking up this book.

Mourning dress!

OK these sandals are really cool

"Still, to doubt specters was to question God's existence."

Well that explains a lot!

"And what's more, Mr Alula owned a slave - further evidence of his high moral standing."

Yeah, this morality teacher is the worst!