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Steven Deyle, CARRY ME BACK: THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE IN AMERICAN LIFE. http://ift.tt/1GifHFJ I’d be interested to hear Anthony Gregory’s thoughts if he’s had a chance to read it. Deyle has a really interesting claim about something we’ve talked about previously, viz. the puzzle of the Deep South’s seeming overreaction to Lincoln’s election. (Which Deyle, interestingly, suggests actually had more to do with their anxieties about the fate of the Upper South than it had to do with any *direct* threat to slavery posed by Lincoln or the North as of 1860.)

Steven Deyle, CARRY ME BACK: THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE IN AMERICAN LIFE. http://ift.tt/1GifHFJ I’d be interested to hear Anthony Gregory’s thoughts if he’s had a chance to read it. Deyle has a really interesting claim about something we’ve talked about previously, viz. the puzzle of the Deep South’s seeming overreaction to Lincoln’s election. (Which Deyle, interestingly, suggests actually had more to do with their anxieties about the fate of the Upper South than it had to do with any *direct* threat to slavery posed by Lincoln or the North as of 1860.)

The important thing you need to know is that Clarissa Explains It All is returning to television.

The important thing you need to know is that Clarissa Explains It All is returning to television.

General Tso’s Quorn nuggets

Oh, good, another reply to one of my history posts on Robert E. Lee. Did u know that “Robert E. Lee was merely a product of his times, and one of the best products at that”? http://ift.tt/1FE635h

David Wiggins (1968), “On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time,” vs. Kit Fine (2000), “A Counter-Example to Locke’s Thesis.” Fight! (x-post: http://ift.tt/1KC6JHt)

To-day: Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. Ch. 4, “Accusations” and Ch. 5, “Performing Ritual Murder.” (x-post: http://ift.tt/1KWI95A)