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  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Lemmy.jpeg
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    16 hours ago

    He may clearly not be interested in reading, but others also may not be aware of how to find the material

    A People’s History of The United States is an incredibly insightful book, especially when it comes to understanding the history of Indian Removal, Chattel Slavery, labor uprisings, as well as the dynamic between the capital owners and the workers/slaves throughout both the colony period and post-1776

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoTea@lemmy.zip•Best Way to Maintain Tea Brewing Temperature?English
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    7 days ago

    I have an electric tea kettle that can hold specific temperatures. It is really nice for loose leaf and multiple steeps. Some people can guestimate a temp pretty well, I personally use a thermometer if I’m somewhere without an accurate kettle. Or I just use a black where the exact temp isn’t that important

    I don’t recommend the tea kettles with an infuser. The teas are best steeped with the natural decay of temperature. The only teas that benefit from being kept at a temp while steeping are some herbal and chai teas, and those require boiling anyway. Best done on the stove

    I’d say the correct temp matters the most for green or white teas. Black and herbal are more forgiving.

    Temp drop from the ceramics is pretty insignificant, brew time is far more important

    A hot rinse is a common part for Chinese tea ceremony. Makes more sense since the ceramics are small. Tea pots have much more volume to surface area, so only needed for tea pots if the tea leaves themselves require a rinse.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?
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    8 days ago
    Relevant section from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

    As [Edmund] Morgan says, masters, “initially at least, perceived slaves in much the same way they had always perceived servants . . . shiftless, irresponsible, unfaithful, ungrateful, dishonest. . . .” And “if freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done.” And so, measures were taken. About the same time that slave codes, involving discipline and punishment, were passed by the Virginia Assembly,

    Virginia’s ruling class, having proclaimed that all white men were superior to black, went on to offer their social (but white) inferiors a number of benefits previously denied them. In 1705 a law was passed requiring masters to provide white servants whose indenture time was up with ten bushels of corn, thirty shillings, and a gun, while women servants were to get 15 bushels of corn and forty shillings. Also, the newly freed servants were to get 50 acres of land.

    Morgan concludes: “Once the small planter felt less exploited by taxation and began to prosper a little, he became less turbulent, less dangerous, more respectable. He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.”

    We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.