When did I dismiss or accept slavery? Historians for decades have agreed (besides Ulrich Phillips, who was an actual racist) that slavery was intertwined into the US economy, especially post market rev (~1820s-40s) with cotton and textile mills, etc. Slavery wasn't even a thought in the 1700s, basically everyone accepted it like I said... I'm not accepting slavery as a good thing, just that history is multifaceted and rarely "this good this bad"

I think we can accept some things about history and historical figures while denouncing others given our modern perspective. There will probably be things about our Era future people will think it's bullshit or stupid. I'm not defending slavery at all, but the reality is slavery was intertwined into the American economy and that's why we needed a civil war to get rid of it. That was almost 100 years later from this crossing... at this time virtually nobody thought slavery was bad and frankly they had bigger fish to fry evidently. We can accept none of these people were on a high moral standing re: slavery while appreciating their impact on our country... the issue isn't black and white

Iirc they were drunk already given its Christmas? I might be wrong though, that's even better though if they intentionally gave the hessians alcohol

Arguably this battle at Trenton is the better turning point of the war than Saratoga which was the next battle At this time the continental army was losing bad and hard most of the time, given they were fighting the British empire as a bunch of random dudes. So morale was really low and Washington was a few weeks away from not having an army at all. This battle was such a victory, a sneak attack on Christmas against a bunch of drunk Germans, that it reinvigorated the continental army to keep fighting which brought them onto Saratoga where they were able to secure French support and the rest is history

I just put them on Goodreads and forget why I was interested in it when I look through the want to read list so I never get to it. I get most of my books from the library so I don't really have a use for Goodreads anyway

Good advice to follow! I rarely buy my own book nowadays, just the library closest to where I live is pretty small and it’s a hassle to drive downtown for the “good” library. This thread suggests many people face a similar issue, small local bookstores are just not a thing where they live

I remember when I was in elementary school a decade or so ago, you could buy like 3 or 4 books for $20, and sometimes an eraser and smelly pencils and those pens with the fluffy ball on top

The sad thing is if I didn’t get a gift card I wouldn’t consider going at all

Unfortunately I noticed target has a similar issue! at least my target… so happy it works for you!

I got my secret Santa a politics memoir book and it was $27.99 for maybe 200 pages. It was a 30% off at target sale, which was great, but still shocked an average sized book can cost that much