I LOST A BET vanguard liberal legalist technocratic socialist Co-founder of the Anti-Capitulation League.
![“Heavy snow overnight. Not as bad as the big blizzard two years ago, but bad enough. This morning we find ourselves prisoners in our own home, though for once it is because of Nature, not the fear of servile insurrection. Stephen had to make his way through the snow to guard a team of slaves.
“My brother learned a lot from our northern friends during his time on Ragged Island. They especially liked boasting of their winters to us Southerners. ‘Now I know why the Yankees despise us,’ he said when he returned home at dusk. ‘They expect snow like this every winter in every town up north. Every Yankee man owns a broad-bladed shovel. When the snow comes down at night, they all rise before dawn and work like Psyche’s ants[3] to clear paths down every street and alley. Not just men, either—strong boys, strapping widows, invalids’ wives. They shovel it all out into the street where the snow roller[4] packs it down for sledges to drive over. Just imagine if I was to try that here. Imagine if the neighbors saw me out there with a shovel working like a n____r. Instead, ten slaves take all day to move as much snow as one old Yankee with a backache could in an hour, and I have to watch with musket in hand so they don’t use the shovels to split white men’s skulls.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iijlxtbbaj5lbndjxpkvsmsd/bafkreidvpcohwy6nqp2gssyqjgbrulpt57hdccbm4qvpnrqy7dascociaa)
I LOST A BET vanguard liberal legalist technocratic socialist Co-founder of the Anti-Capitulation League.