Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Each man must choose between corn and vengeance

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Those fields were the special joy of Mark Ukacierra. They bore witness to the power of the Kanun . Whole clans allowed their fields to go un...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

If cotton was the king of the antebellum South, rice was her queen

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If cotton was the king of the antebellum South, rice was her queen for the three centuries of her engagement with slavery. With the revamp o...
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Monday, 23 March 2026

You don't just make a gumbo, you build one

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Now you can get everything you want, but back them a gumbo meant something - it told you what time it was. You don't just make a gumbo, ...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

With African American genealogy, it's more about social justice, regaining a heritage denied

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This is not a hobby. Look, for many white Americans, genealogy is a hobby, it gets them out of the house, gives them something to enjoy rese...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

It was a labor camp system for exiled prisoners of war and victims of kidnapping

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The American plantation wasn't the quaint village community that you saw depicted in your history textbook. It was a labor camp system f...
Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Fruit that is bred primarily for sweetness at the expense of complexity of flavour

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Gala is the apple that always seemed to me to encapsulate the unfortunate shift in recent decades towards fruit that is bred primarily for s...
Tuesday, 10 March 2026

England had been ruled by men whose competing priorities made an unstable compound

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The problem was that ever since Ireton and Pride had purged Parliament in 1649 to push through the trial and execution of the King, in which...