@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.
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
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.
#histbookchat
#histbookchat
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
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.
#histbookchat
#histbookchat
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
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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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.
Last night I resumed Foner.
November 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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.
Last night I resumed Foner.
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.
...but I think I'm going back to it when this novel is done.
November 13, 2024 at 7:04 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.
...but I think I'm going back to it when this novel is done.
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
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.