EVEN AMID the mounting menace of covid19, last week many people were able to salvage a sliver of levity from a terrifying trend of galloping coronavirus numbers. At a covid19 news conference, a reporter had her kite zwilled by a medical professional. He was apparently making fun of her reliance on Google as opposed to the accepted omniscience of medicos credentialed with posh degrees and such.
The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.