In his seminal 1995 text, How the Irish Became White , Noel Ignatiev at one point asks what the stakes of whiteness were: “It did not mean that they all became rich, or even ‘middle-class’ (however that is defined); to this day there are plenty of poor Irish…To Irish laborers, to become white meant at first that they could sell themselves piecemeal instead of being sold for life…” (More…)
A somewhat shorter version of this interview appeared on The Battleground a week ago . It included a very apt editorial introduction, which is not reproduced here, but which we recommend that you check out in situ . Sweden’s Adrestia is one of the most vital acts to come out of the vaunted Swedish d-beat scene in years. (More…)
In 10 October 1840, the brig Uncas departed Alexandria, Virginia. After a brief trip upstream to Washington D.C., the ship headed for Mobile. It was playing the coastwise slave trade, carrying 68 enslaved people to be sold in the lucrative slave markets of the Deep South. (More…)