Fiery trialJames H. Lincoln
Fiery trial
by James H. Lincoln · first published 1984
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…https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-black-people-a... And that's just the basic legal stuff, like not being property. When you look at actual attitudes, Northerners were quite racist. You could read, for example, Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery". It covers quite well how even Lincoln was quite racist in a way typical of the time. You might also read Loewen's "Sundown Towns" which shows these attitudes not…
on “Can computers cope with human races? (1989)” ↗It's a great point. And the reason we have a lot of pro-slavery art is that the anti-slavery art was destroyed, or never allowed to be created in the first place. I've recently been reading The Fiery Trial, a biography of Lincoln's ideas, and mobs would happily assault and sometimes kill white abolitionists just for speaking about the notion. And Kendi's Stamped From The Beginning makes clear how eager…
on “San Francisco school board votes to destroy murals by Victor Arnautoff” ↗…the City - Glaus, Time Enough for Love - Heinlein, We The Navigators, Strength to Love - Martin Luther King, The Filmmakers Handbook, Schaums's Mathematica, Other People's Wars - Hager, What if?, The Fiery Trial, The Difference Engine, Robert's Rules of Order, The Swerve. This should take me a couple months.
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗