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re: Watching Roots and its making me sick
Posted on 2/18/13 at 1:38 am to Jayre
Posted on 2/18/13 at 1:38 am to Jayre
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Read Time on the Cross.
Most historians consider this work to be outdated, mainly due to its use of cliometrics (basically using science to measure history), as in measuring the happiness of a slave based on his output and/or rations.
It is embarrassing to see people still point to that book given how completely it seems to have been discredited within a couple years of its release more than 30 years ago:
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And it is a weird regional hobby of some white people in the South to latch onto things like "Time on the Cross" with great interest
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