The extensive effects framework is an elegant way to reveal the interconnected nature of human experiences & their far reaching impacts on social structures & systems of power. But, there's significant challenges in establishing clear causal links in a phenomena & their extensive effects. #IR47

That's why it's only white people who tell Black people to stop living in the past / get over slavery, as if the tendrils of slavery don't reach into the present. For many whites they don't, because we've created the discipline of history in such a way that we don't have to see the tendrils. #IR47

The history of Blackness in America is the history of the right to exist alongside everyone else in the future. For Black America, past, present & future continually exist at the same time. #IR47

Humans continuously seek new ways of finding meaning, understanding the world, & making commitments. These things in turn take on lives of their own and shape the world we live in, in our collective futures. Which is a really threatening prospect if we let them remain unconscious and unnamed. #IR47

History, Society & culture are constructions that continually evolve, adapt, & renegotiate themselves, especially as we name them. Bailey's concept of implicit religion suggests that the search for meaning in life is not at the hinge of post/modernism. Nor is it dictated by religion. #IR47

West Africa had brought the slave trade to a standstill, and the fanatical British naval captain Challoner Ogle tasked with their eradication to preserve the trade. #IR47

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@drangelasutton.bsky.social book is about the 1722 Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of Gabon in West Africa. The culmination of a years long cat & mouse chase between the fleet of Golden Age pirates whose marauding in

Pirates came from all nations, colonies, ethnicities, genders. Every empire or proto empire & their national trading companies were concerned about the problem. This generated many boxes in the National Archives of each of these countries of complaints & debates on what to do about pirates. #IR47

People being overworked & underpaid. Little rest until their broken bodies eventually gave out, a built in function of late stage capitalism. Therefore structural, yet we describe it as individualised & shift the blame & burden onto individuals & creating so-called solutions or punishments. #IR47