Top products from r/RedditThroughHistory

I highly recommend the book Endurance. I'm normally not particularly interested in history, but this was a very engaging and compelling read.

I recommend checking out Radioactive.

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Spacesuit-Travel-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0345324412

I've got the perfect soap to use too!

Slavery is a word that, like say fascism, is overused out of context and as such is misunderstood. i'm not making an apology of slavery, and will quote a review from a fantastic book to extend on that point:



>Douglas Blackmon writes an incredibly detailed account of the sad history of African Americans forcibly enslaved through questionable legal means long after the Civil War by several southern States up through WWII.

>Using trumped up charges or minor charges with extreme penalties requiring extended jail or prison terms, blacks were incarcerated and their terms leased out to mines, farms, logging companies and a variety of industries. Due to the financial rewards gained by arresting Sheriffs, Judges and Justices of the Peace, blacks were rounded up many times on false charges to merely increase the earning of those involved. The saddest history is the extreme treatment given to prisoners leased out or whose fines were paid by the owners of industry or property who maintained the prisoners until there "time" was complete although often extended. Working in horrible conditions, long days, 6 days a week, poorly fed, poorly housed and often severely beaten; blacks died by the score and were buried in unmarked graves. (...)

>What is particularly abhorrent was the gross mistreatment of prisoners and killings of helpless prisoners indicative of the fact that these men, and enslaved women, were considered less than slaves, as if they had no value primarily because they could be easily replaced by an abundant supply of arrested individuals at virtually no cost.