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Luke is on page 50 of 363

A key argument for expanding the trade in Africans was that if London did not pursue this bestial path, it would fall behind other European powers.

(P.S. Important as this book is, my cat protests my momentarily resting it upon him in order to type out this quote: he left my lap only to immediately return again and shove himself just beyond the book's reach.)

— Dec 31, 2025 02:06PM

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

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Luke is on page 127 of 363

At first I didn't mind the repetitiveness because it helped me keep my thoughts in order through these dire amounts of extremely important info, but some unprofessional choices in figures of speech is making the whole 'and now let me spend yet another paragraph putting forward the same generically pithy analysis that served me well the last twenty-five times I did it' rather grating.

— Jan 02, 2026 11:46AM

Luke is on page 18 of 363

The traditional narrative of the [US] republic's founding has emphasized insufficiently the amorality and trans-border ethos that came to define capitalism—which often was at odds with traditional notions of patriotism and even sovereignty.

— Dec 29, 2025 11:17AM

Luke is starting

Someone want to tell me which smart aleck 'librarian' on this godforsaken site didn't include the endnotes and index in the page count for this edition?

— Dec 28, 2025 04:57PM