149 years ago today

Shouldn't it be 149 years ago?

oops, wrong oeuvre

Wrong number, too.

I keep doing that...

At first I thought you meant the publication of a posthumous edition.

I've told you lot before: I'm innumerate. I passed pure math with distinction and failed applied. I can't even do basic arithmetic without a calculator.

I've told you lot before: I'm innumerate. I passed pure math with distinction and failed applied.

A famous Czech professor of mathematics once said that mathematics is the only science that has no use for numbers.

And just three years later, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

I know, I know. But I love telling that to people who claim that Darwin instigated racism.:)

With all respect to James Goetz, 32 years before that, Britain passed into law The Abolition Act, which came into force and effect on 01 August 1833. That act altered the status of a slave to that of an indentured servant. Many imagine that this is a distinction without a difference. But consider; the contract of indenture was one that a minor was permitted to enter into, as it was it the benefit of the minor. By indenture, a minor was contracted to a master, in order to learn a trade. Such an indentured servant was entitled to food, clothing, shelter, and education.
(The Brits were not content to "free" their slaves to sleep under bridges, and starve in the gutters.)
As the indenture lasted seven years, I will not gainsay anyone who wishes to suggest that the true "Year of Jubilee" was 1840. That's still 25 yearas before the Yanks did anything about the problem>