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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student
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Pen name. Writing and reviewing dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging. Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, a snob about coffee and tea (unless desperate), a wiki and map wanderer, and a cat steward.
![By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreihnug56wzczu6qvirzzepjtp7owp3tynpy2sqw6bset7o53w4zhbu)
