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BrANCH 2012: Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Second Slavery and the First (U.S.) Republic

Ed Baptist gave the Peter Parish Memorial Lecture on Friday evening. For someone who flew in shortly before his talk, I thought he did a great job. Baptist opened with a summary of Solomon Northup's life, ending with the observation that overlapping networks and competing claims saved Northup from murder and that financial networks enslaved … Continue reading BrANCH 2012: Peter Parish Memorial Lecture: Second Slavery and the First (U.S.) Republic