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Walker’s memory remained vivid among abolitionists well into the mid-nineteenth century, only to fade after the Civil War. But meanwhile, he had struck a strong blow against the notion that whiteness, throughout history, deserved to be judged positively.29
Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People
In 73 BCE, under the leadership of Spartacus, fifty or so slave gladiators, improvising weapons out of kitchen equipment, escaped from a gladiatorial training school at Capua in southern Italy and went on the run.
Mary Beard • SPQR
I am one generation removed from picking cotton for pocket change
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
By the sixteenth century it was clear enough that Europe’s comparative advantage over other Eurasian civilizations lay in its precocious development of marine activity. The simultaneous growth of long-distance trade with the Americas and India was one sign of this. Another was the rise of the huge cod fishery in the North Atlantic,
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
The capitalist is always free to use labor, and the worker is always forced to sell it. The value of labor is completely destroyed if it is not sold every instant. Labor can neither be accumulated nor even be saved, unlike true commodities. Labor is life, and if life is not each day exchanged for food, it suffers and soon perishes. To claim that hu
... See moreKarl Marx • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: With linked Table of Contents
Cette conception du travail libre au fondement du capitalisme est contestée par Castel et l’historien Alessandro Stanziani4 : projection qui se focalise sur l’image du prolétaire européen de Marx, elle ne tient pas compte de la réalité du travail en dehors des grandes industries en Europe, à l’instar de celle des domestiques, journaliers agricoles
... See moreCéline Marty • Travailler moins pour vivre mieux - Guide pour une philosophie antiproductiviste : Guide pour une philosophie antiproductiviste (Hors Collection) (French Edition)
In 1989, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in Overtown, the Colombian-born police officer William Lozano crashed his car into a biker, Clement Lloyd, who was fleeing him. Another young Black man riding with Lloyd, Allan Blanchard, also died from the ensuing crash. Blanchard had just arrived in Miami from the Virgin Islands. Three days of uprisin
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Anti-pirate propaganda was a deliberate effort to undermine the legitimacy of a renewed threat to royal power. In reality, pirate ships were more often than not places rich with Citizen innovation.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
The Gullah Geechee worked in tandem and in mutual aid. The owners who had had them chained and stacked left them on the island on their own. Owners distanced themselves from the evidence of the fetid hold, the salt-soaked death on their skin, satisfied with the proceeds of their labor: indigo, rice, cotton. This absenteeism was common on the Sea Is
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