So I’m getting ready to go lie down and read, but if anyone’s interested there’s a new book about slavery that looks at its history from a different perspective and it’s on sale right now for $3.99. I grabbed it as it was on my Kindle wish list, but I prolly won’t get to reading it for months:

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of “breeding women” essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves’ children, and their children’s children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light.

G’nite, lizards.