such high status in the Antebellum US South. Other reviews do note that Davis points out that Christian Corsairs were just as active in taking Christian slaves. I'll have to give it a read, but first glance at some reviews makes me wonder how US slavery apologists will use 7/

attain full citizenship in some global cultures. Meanwhile, even post Reconstruction people of African descent faced grandfather clause, separate but "equal," and the full weight of Jim Crow, not to mentions the travails & status of freed slaves pre Civil War. /11

this book to further false "slavery was all the same and everyone was doing it" narratives to soothe America's past. While the statement is partially true. African chattel slavery in the US was of a brutal from unlike others. Even Davis's previous work acknowledges work done 8/

Finally, let me be clear, owning other human beings is always morally wrong, but it's vital to understand the difference between cultures where owned peoples were seen as livestock at best and those where they were still seen as human beings. In the latter freed slaves could 10/

repatriate Italian slaves (the region Davis focuses on, making a claim apllied to wider Europe even more suspect). Something far rarer for enslaved African in the US. Anyway, even a book like this can be challenged on its merits. 9/

had a better standard of living than some free people (willingly given by their families, not themsleves, to be clear). Janissaries were soldiers, and thus armed, they could become generals, and advisors to the Sultan. I defy anyone to find many people of African descent with 6/

If the focus on Christian slavery & equating it to African slavery in the Americas has an agenda. For example, the Janissaries, slave soldiers to the Ottoman Sultan were often Christian boys who were castrated bound into service. Yet some were willing given becuse Janissaries 5/

other flaws. Davis's previous book on a similar topic also received criticism for being "lightly informed by Ottoman scholarship" including later looks at the Ottomans by Western scholars. Though called a minor qubble by Eric Durateler of BYU I can't help but wonder 4/

One by Ehud Toledano of Tel-Aviv University notes that Davis doesn't use a single Ottoman soruce, of which there are several. Even if approached with skepticism not using any Ottoman sources is suspect. Toledano goes on to point out 3/

similarities between this 'other' slavery and the much better known human-bondage suffered at the very same time by black Africans in the Americas." The title is provocative and has my historian senses tingling. So I looked up some reviews of his work by other academics. 2/

I'm going have to have to see his methodology, a book published over a decade ago "Muhammed and Charlemagne Revisted" made a similar claim based on extrapolating a single data point. The fact that the blurb makes the claim: "Davis demonstrates the many often surprising 1/

In fiction, do some of those mysterious/ threatening/ etc. calls from unknown numbers seem odd to anyone else in a world where people increasingly don't answer calls from unknown numbers?

had £50 in property (equivalent today to about $12,000 in 1776 or $6000 in 1807). In 1807, new legislation stripped women and non-white men of the right to vote in NJ. Anyway, another example of how things being "new" or claims that things " were always this way" are often BS /2

Speaking of "tradition" and the use of they as a singular gender neutral pronoun. New Jersey's constitution used they as a gender neutral pronoun between 1776 and 1807, thus allowing anyone, regardless of ethnicity or gender, to vote so long as they 1/ https://t.co/GlX4wZRWi4

the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” While the jist is the same, exact wording when quoting someone, otherwise over the years you end up with a massive game of telephone where naunce and eventually meaning can be lost /2

Er, not quite. The actual quote is “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of 1/

Speaking as a college history professor, any historian worth their salt highlights the nuance of history. While we might speak of the dangers of basing what we know on peoples who were largely written about by their enemies, it's vital to remember all people are multi 1/

This BS is what my film professor mentor would have called a theory not supported by the diegetic or extradigetic elements of a film. Ironically, if they took the "red pill" that means they're the one's who are claiming to be woke as the rest of us are still plugged in. /2

Calling the themsleves "red pills" is so strange. The last human city in #theMatrix had a massive black and brown population that wouldn't fit with what most "red pills" are pushing. They'd probably want to deport the majority of the remnants of humanity to the surface. 1/

hate it when I can't get into stories that seem compelling because I don't like the characters. While the Carol is right about some things, maybe many things, her you "should think like me" BS raisies my BP. This is one I'm gonna have to read the Cliff Notes on. /2