freedmenspatrol.bsky.social
@freedmenspatrol.bsky.social
I used to write a blog of this name. Life intervened. Semi-lapsed student of the intersection of slavery, white supremacy, and American politics.

Very autistic. Very gay. Very boring.
Returned to history with Greytown Is No More!, so far as I know the only book specifically about the affair. I got obsessed with it in 2014. Hard to follow sometimes but it was pretty good and no shade on the book for the genuine difficulties researching murky stuff.

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January 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Just finished Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Now I think I might need a bit of a break. The last half of his life is necessarily pretty rough. Probably should not have used it as follow-up to Foner.

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December 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Finished Foner's Reconstruction a few days ago. I remembered a lot more of it than I thought I did, which was nice. Moved on to Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass.

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December 8, 2024 at 6:25 AM
An update on the boring saga of What I'm (re)Reading. I put up Foner's Reconstruction on election night in favor of fiction, assuming I would probably never come back again. That's what happened in '16.

Last night I resumed Foner.
November 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Last time This Thing happened, I stopped reading the history I was working on. Never went back to it because memories. This time I was rereading Foner's Reconstruction. Put it aside last week in favor of fiction.

...but I think I'm going back to it when this novel is done.
November 13, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Guess I'm here now. Don't know if I'm staying or not because I quit the other place for mental health years back now, but I do have fond memories of the old, weird, nerdy iteration of the other place.
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 AM