The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.
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Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow.

NOVA SCOTIA ARCHIVES

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(@githard says it's from @leftistgamermemes from Instagram)

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bert: ernie, this heart sutra book is confusing. it says 'form is emptiness, emptiness is form' what does that even mean?

ernie:okay, bert. you know your paperclip collection?

bert: yeah

ernie: they're just bent metal, bert! they're only 'paperclips' because you use them that way. without you, they're just... metal

bert: so...they're empty?

ernie:yep. empty of fixed meaning. but because of that, they can become anything. a paperclip, a sculpture... or a marshmallow catapult, Bert! the heart sutra says when you stop clinging to what you think things have to be,you’re free to see how amazing everything already is

Bert: ernie, don't make a marshmallow catapult out of my paperclips

I would call your attention to a significant sequence of events.

1. Trump attacks Harvard.
2. Harvard refuses to fold.
3. Universities around the country start to form a mutual defense pact against Trump.
4. Trump now says that letter to Harvard was never supposed to be sent.

What it does show is that Trump, like bullies everywhere, folds when he faces firm opposition. So we need to put firm opposition in his face at every opportunity.

#uspol