Sorry should have mentioned: 4th August 1626. The day 60 enslaved people from Africa were brought to England's first colony on St Christopher to labour on English tobacco plantations. This is the topic of my next book. I'll do a post/thread commemorating the 400th anniversary in August!

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Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.

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It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

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One of my students just told me he watched one of the Kung Fu Panda movies every day for two and a half years and then walked out before I could ask SEVERAL questions.

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i imagine this as the first one might be still looking for ground, while post phase 2 sometimes the movie felt a low key attempt at rebooting (of sorts) i'll definitely watch it soonish

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