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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Returning, as I do from time to time, to the passage in Black Jacobins about the Le Jeune case. It’s been a couple years since I have had the opportunity to teach this passage but hopefully I can correct that soon. A direct and damning account on the nature of elite impunity.

The Negro Code was enacted in 1685. A century after, in 1788, the Le Jeune casel laid bare the realities of slave law and slave justice in San Domingo.
Le Jeune was a coffee planter of Plaisance. Suspecting that the mortality among his Negroes was due to poison, he murdered four of them and attempted to extort confessions from two women by torture. He roasted their feet, legs and elbows, while alternately gagging them thoroughly and then withdrawing the gag. He extorted nothing and threatened all his French-speaking slaves that he would kill them without mercy if they dared to denounce him.
But Plaisance, in the thickly-populated North Province, was always a centre of the more advanced slaves, and 14 of them went to Le Cap and charged Le Jeune before the law. The judges could do no less than accept the charges.
They appointed a commission which made an investigation

at Le Jeune's plantation and confirmed the testimony of the slaves.
The commission actually found the two women barred and chained, with elbows and legs decomposing, but still alive; one of them had her neck so lacerated by an iron collar that she could not swallow. Le Jeune insisted that they were guilty of the poisonings which for so long had ravaged his plantation and gave in evidence a box taken in the women's possession. This, he said, contained poison. But when the box was opened it was found to contain nothing more than ordinary tobacco and rat dung.
Defence was impossible, and when the two women died, Le Jeune disappeared just in time to escape arrest. The case was clear. At the preliminary hearing the 14 Negroes repeated their accusations word for word. But seven white witnesses testified in favour of Le Jeune and two of his stewards formally absolved him of all guilt. The planters of Plaisance petitioned the Governor and the Intendant on behalf of Le Jeune, and demanded that each of his slaves be given 50 lashes for having denounced him. The Chamber of Agriculture of Le Cap asked that Le Jeune should merely be banished from the colony. Seventy planters from the north made a similar petition, and the Philadelphian Circle, a centre of San Domingo culture, was asked to make representations on Le Jeune's behalf. Le Jeune's father asked for a writ of intervention against one of the official investigators whose evidence he impugned. "To put it shortly," wrote the Governor and the Intendant to the Minister, "it seems that the safety of the colony depends on the acquittal of Le Jeune." It did, if the slaves were to be kept in their place. The judges, after a thousand delays, returned a negative verdict, the charges were declared null and void and the case dismissed. The public prosecutor demanded an appeal before the Superior Council of Port-au-Prince, the official capital of the island. All white San Domingo was up in arms. The Intendant appointed the oldest mem…

cil once more acquitted Le Jeune. The Home Government could pass what laws it liked. White San Domingo would not tolerate any interference with the methods by which they kept their slaves in order, 18

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Is that the same presidential candidate from the other story?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

However, Cooper Flagg had an even more dominant performance for the RoY prediction. Interestingly, VJ Edgecombe came in a distant second place. Not who I would have guessed, but the man has highlights.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

In the East, absolutely nobody had a strong sense of what to do with Boston, who got about as many votes to finish in the top three as they did to finish outside of the play-in. The students in particular were absolutely not buying the preseason Hawks hype, and were unmoved by the new-look Raptors.

Rank Team Mean Placement Mode Placement
1 Cavs 2.53 1
2 Knicks 3.47 2
3 Celtics 5.53 1
4 Pistons 5.76 5
5 Magic 6.01 4
6 Bucks 6.13 6
7 Pacers 7.13 8
8 Hawks 7.64 9
9 Heat 8.63 9
10 76ers 8.77 8
11 Bulls 10.21 11
12 Raptors 10.57 11
13 Hornets 12.03 14
14 Nets 12.32 14
15 Wizards 13.19 15

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Few surprises in the Western conference, where the Thunder were the runaway choice for number one. I would say these picks mostly hewed closely to a basic consensus, with the Lakers, Rockets and Mavericks potentially getting brand name and fan allegiance boosts.

Rank Team Mean Placement Mode Placement
1 Thunder 2.57 1
2 Nuggets 3.74 2
3 Rockets 3.83 2
4 Lakers 4.94 6
5 Timberwolves 5.6 5
6 Clippers 6.4 5
7 Mavericks 6.81 5
8 Warriors 7.03 7
9 Grizzlies 8.8 9
10 Spurs 9.37 8
11 Kings 11.41 13
12 Suns 11.84 12
13 Pelicans 11.96 13
14 Trailblazers 12.24 13

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There’s something really bad waiting for her at home.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Worth also looking at this section: Again we could argue that this could be more explicit, but in context there is no doubt what “participation in trading networks” means.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

One way to evaluate this claim is through my area of expertise- AP World History, which is a curriculum that, for better or for worse, is taught to about 500,000 students annually. It is simply hard to argue that things in the AP framework are obscure or censored truths.

AP framework stating “Enslavement in Africa continued in its traditional forms, including. . . The export of enslaved persons.”

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Feel like shit, just want him back.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New York City mayoral candidates governing agenda checklist.

The Simpsons frame where the bigger brothers lady checks off revenge from the list.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There is only one pragmatic approach to social media.

Book entitled “Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s reversion to the sword”. This book is considered discredited by most historians because of its wildly overstated thesis.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The next appearance of the ottomans is here in the maritime empire unit, where they are used as a foil for European empires.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We then move onto a set of three generic standards, each of which could be applied to the Ottomans, but none of which require them. I do think the first standard is intended to be aimed directly at the devshirme, and it is a suggested example in the expanded outline.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Found the relevant passage in Peter Frankopan’s Silk Roads:

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I’ve been listening to this new song. And they’re saying there’s no rules. You think that’s true?

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Can I say something without everyone getting mad at me? m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Y...

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Today in class I’m teaching this relevant AP World History standard. This comes from unit 6.7, which is broadly in the period from 1750-1900, but at the end of class I ask each period whether they think this statement is less true, more true, or about the same as in the past.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Nice selections! As a fellow 93 guy here are my adds

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

The problem in this case is that the Opium Wars are simply too significant of a historical development to be left out of the history of economic imperialism. This problem is compounded when we look at the laughable later historical development that students do have to know.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

This is a good post and a good opportunity to do a quick examination of how the AP World History test engages with the Opium Wars. First notice that both the wars are in the “illustrative examples” section. That means they are not required course content, which in my view, is a mistake.

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Teucrian @teucrian.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Greg Poole not only sucks but is also incidentally one of the highest paid supers in Texas. Lotta low cards in this hand but he still might be the worst.

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