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A new independent publisher for the fediverse! @nybooks joined last week (h/t to @FediFollows for letting us know). Here’s their review of historian Catherine Hall’s “Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism.” [Story may be paywalled]
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/charting-an-unheroic-past-lucky-valley-catherine-hall/
#Books @bookstodon #Reading #History @histodons #Jamaica #Slavery #HistoryOfSlavery
The New York Review of BooksCharting an Unheroic Past | Fara DabhoiwalaWith her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.
On this day in 1919 Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by government forces in Morelos after an ambush.
