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" The historian Linda Colley has observed that written constitutions often function as 'weapons of control' rather than 'documents of liberation and rights.' As far as slaves were concerned, this certainly applies to the original Constitution."

"I was beginning to suspect that our culture values stories of people going rogue in well-trodden ways that don't really challenge authority."

I'm only 44 pages in and I cannot stop laughing out loud. I don't know whether to read this as fast as I can, or to savor it and take my time. This is a good book.