The fact that so horrible an institution as slavery existed at all makes me hope we never discover non-human life as we venture out into space. If we can't even treat our fellow homo sapiens fairly we'd likely try to genocide anything alien.
I still see one just north of the Virginia/North Carolina border along I-95. It flies in front of what looks like an old, abandoned gas station that is now an abandoned antiques store.
I've never read one slave memoir but I read Fanny Trollope's book about Manners of the Americans (she got trapped and had to stay here, she is Anthony's mother). And she visited a couple who were poor but had 2 slaves. Their thing was to constantly ridicule them in their presence, as well as making them do all the work. Just like you'd imagine Donald Trump would, or 2nd graders might do. It was really really the pits.
I think all these squabbles people have in daily life is bc of him. Or the Warren Court! I think these pissed off people got so riled-- they felt they were being asked to feel feelings for disadvantaged [people and they've been enraged ever since.
I don't fault them. Who could handle this huge mental package, and foresee the ramifications of it all? Imagine the weight of the feelings they were stirring up. How many slaves did they know themselves?
Nothing against Harry Turtledove, but instead of another alternative history about what might have happened if the Confederates had [insert military technology or strategy here], I'd definitely buy a book that imagines what the US would look like if the Freedman's Bureau hadn't been sabotaged at every turn.
Oliver Otis Howard is definitely an interesting character of the Civil War, as interesting as George Henry Thomas or Daniel Sickles when I was researching them.
You noticed that, huh? It seems there's a dearth of speculative sci-fi where the future is actually better than it is now, like authors either can't conceive of it or believe it too fanciful.
Yes, and WHY??!?
As Pete Seegar sang:If we could consider each otherA neighbor, a friend, or a brotherIt could be a wonderful, wonderful world
Or if a bunch of social justice warriors with AK 47s showed up just before every massacre of blacks.
The fact that so horrible an institution as slavery existed at all makes me hope we never discover non-human life as we venture out into space. If we can't even treat our fellow homo sapiens fairly we'd likely try to genocide anything alien.
I still see one just north of the Virginia/North Carolina border along I-95. It flies in front of what looks like an old, abandoned gas station that is now an abandoned antiques store.
I've never read one slave memoir but I read Fanny Trollope's book about Manners of the Americans (she got trapped and had to stay here, she is Anthony's mother). And she visited a couple who were poor but had 2 slaves. Their thing was to constantly ridicule them in their presence, as well as making them do all the work. Just like you'd imagine Donald Trump would, or 2nd graders might do. It was really really the pits.
Fabulous!!!! Sick of that argument. What about all the other public services you might perform-- why does this deer-destroying attract you?
Not one hummingbird in Hawaii because Dole pineapple. Not one!
I think all these squabbles people have in daily life is bc of him. Or the Warren Court! I think these pissed off people got so riled-- they felt they were being asked to feel feelings for disadvantaged [people and they've been enraged ever since.
I don't fault them. Who could handle this huge mental package, and foresee the ramifications of it all? Imagine the weight of the feelings they were stirring up. How many slaves did they know themselves?
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I notice that we still have that jerk DeJoy at the post office....
Nothing against Harry Turtledove, but instead of another alternative history about what might have happened if the Confederates had [insert military technology or strategy here], I'd definitely buy a book that imagines what the US would look like if the Freedman's Bureau hadn't been sabotaged at every turn.
Oliver Otis Howard is definitely an interesting character of the Civil War, as interesting as George Henry Thomas or Daniel Sickles when I was researching them.
Murdaugh got life. NYT.
Two consecutive life terms.
Not eligible for parole.
You noticed that, huh? It seems there's a dearth of speculative sci-fi where the future is actually better than it is now, like authors either can't conceive of it or believe it too fanciful.