tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3259237748029656102..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Charles Dickens, served by slaves in AmericaNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23049642111359128842017-02-26T13:12:35.855-06:002017-02-26T13:12:35.855-06:00Prince Albert of England was certainly anti-slaver...Prince Albert of England was certainly anti-slavery as well.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91573040220273326762017-02-26T11:47:05.719-06:002017-02-26T11:47:05.719-06:00So your logic is since you can't imagine doing...So your logic is since you can't imagine doing it, you want Mr. Steinberg to stop doing what he does so well. That doesn't make any sense, besides, why should he take writing advice from someone who doesn't capitalize anything, ever. Just a thought. NikkiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226032148784322997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-66259959886043691542017-02-26T11:07:23.383-06:002017-02-26T11:07:23.383-06:00Checking to verify my remembrance of Francis Troll...Checking to verify my remembrance of Francis Trollope's low opinion of American slave practices, I came across this devastating assessment: "If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learned but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having which they do not possess."<br /><br />TETomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-11679713271181741432017-02-26T10:23:37.538-06:002017-02-26T10:23:37.538-06:00I believe Trollope's mother, who visited earli...I believe Trollope's mother, who visited earlier, was critical of American slavery. And then there was Dr. Johnson: "How is it that we hear the largest yelps for liberty from the drivers of negroes?"<br /><br />Tom EvansTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-65103668167573856342017-02-26T09:06:59.614-06:002017-02-26T09:06:59.614-06:00Thanks. My sanity, such as it is, depends on bein...Thanks. My sanity, such as it is, depends on being able to get a taste of reality from you every morning.<br /><br />John<br /><br /><br />Trollope toured the United State also, in the middle of the Civil War and with his wife. He visited Chicago and recognized its future preeminence even though it was then half the size of St. Louis. His thoughts on slavery tended to focus on the harms it caused the masters.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-81553010382749816532017-02-26T08:25:50.310-06:002017-02-26T08:25:50.310-06:00That's what my wife says. I'm going to pre...That's what my wife says. I'm going to press on a bit more in this fashion. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-1163750807401771742017-02-26T08:24:59.542-06:002017-02-26T08:24:59.542-06:00That's what my wife says. I'm going to pre...That's what my wife says. I'm going to press on a bit more in this fashion. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51794985475565469472017-02-26T07:31:48.852-06:002017-02-26T07:31:48.852-06:00i know if i tried to work every goddamn day, i wou...i know if i tried to work every goddamn day, i wouldn't last much more than a month. maybe its time to subtitle the blog . whenever the fuck i feel like it? just a thoughtFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68323220266884205292017-02-26T06:55:56.241-06:002017-02-26T06:55:56.241-06:00Good reading...one can almost see Dickens cringing...Good reading...one can almost see Dickens cringing. Lincoln's wit could be spot on as well.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.com