Chapters Nine and Ten today of Battle Cry of Freedom. I'll try to carve out some time to jump in the fray. As always, if you haven't done the reading, please hold back.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.