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Alyssa Bohon
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"On Charles Town and Slavery", heartbreaking -
"...were I to be possessed of a plantation, and my slaves treated in general as they are here, never could I rest in peace, my sleep would be perpetually disturbed by a retrospect of the frauds committed in Africa in order to entrap them, frauds surpassing in enormity everything which a common mind can possibly conceive..."
Almost a century before the Civil War
— Jun 27, 2026 10:04AM
"...were I to be possessed of a plantation, and my slaves treated in general as they are here, never could I rest in peace, my sleep would be perpetually disturbed by a retrospect of the frauds committed in Africa in order to entrap them, frauds surpassing in enormity everything which a common mind can possibly conceive..."
Almost a century before the Civil War
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Alyssa Bohon
is on page 203 of 288
"Must I, then, bid farewell to Britain, to that renowned country? Must I renounce a name so
ancient and so venerable? Alas, she herself, that once indulgent parent, forces me to take up arms against her... That great nation which now convulses the world...why must she strew our poor frontiers with the carcasses of her friends. with the wrecks of our insignificant villages, in which there is no gold?"
— Jun 30, 2026 09:33AM
ancient and so venerable? Alas, she herself, that once indulgent parent, forces me to take up arms against her... That great nation which now convulses the world...why must she strew our poor frontiers with the carcasses of her friends. with the wrecks of our insignificant villages, in which there is no gold?"
Alyssa Bohon
is on page 151 of 288
In which we learn that the inhabitants of 18th century Nantucket were pocket-knife geeks
— Jun 26, 2026 06:26PM
Alyssa Bohon
is on page 121 of 288
"The easiest way of becoming acquainted with the modes of thinking, the rules of conduct, and the prevailing manners of any people is to examine what sort of education they give their children, how they treat them at home, and what they are taught in their places of public worship."
— Jun 22, 2026 03:39PM
Alyssa Bohon
is on page 65 of 288
Did he really keep a hornet's nest in his parlor to control the houseflies? Hmm. Well, this book is interesting.
— Jun 13, 2026 04:08PM