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BP Admin Team · opened by Razib Khan10 July 20181 min read2 comments

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Open ThreadBP Admin TeamA house thread for Brown Pundits, opened by Razib Khan.

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Violet

8 years ago

I don’t comment on Insitome blog, but I found the figure caption on this blog post hilarious:
“American folkways & American pedigrees”. https://blog.insito.me/american-folkways-american-pedigrees-5e877826cf8e

The figure (from a book it seems) showing a harvest scene has caption “slaves cultivating tobacco in Virginia”. It is clearly sugarcane. I don’t think whoever was that book author or illustrator communicated with each other or knew tobacco and sugarcane fields. 🙂

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Razib Khan

8 years ago

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lol. thanks! i thought it looked strange but i don’t know what tobacco looks like so i took it at face value.