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That was the first thing I thought, too. I figured it was too obscure a reference for anyone else to get, but I guess not.

The slave with the scarred face is in the role known as a "driver" (hence the origin of the term "slave driver"). From http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text4/text4read.htm "On large plantations, the person who directed the daily work of the slaves was the overseer, usually a white man but occasionally an enslaved black man—a "driver"—promoted to the position by his master. Some plantations had both a white overseer and a black driver, especially in the deep South or on plantations where the master was often absent. Of white overseers, former slaves relate harsh memories (see the narratives in #1: An Enslaved Person's Life). Of black drivers their memories are more varied, reflecting the ambiguous state between power and impotence inhabited by the black slave driver. How did black drivers relate to their masters, and to their fellow slaves over whom they held authority? How did they adapt to the vulnerable (and perhaps empowering) position between master and slave?"

Buster's disintegration was sad and sublime.

So the people in Hilltop came in and brought their own FEMA trailers? On all those convenient flatbeds apparently. I thought it was interesting that there was a division of labor in the leadership role: Maggie, Daryl and Michonne all spoke for the group in addition to Rick. But all along, I was thinking when the ZA hits, we'd hunker down in our isolated country home. Now I guess we are packing up to Conner Prairie.

Never mind. I didn't read all the previous posts. Carry on.

Roanoke Island is relatively small. Today it includes the towns of Manteo and Wanchese, for a total population of just over 6700 people. During the Civil War it was home to a Freedmen's Colony (founded in 1863, so not quite yet). Another interesting fact is that Roanoke Island was the home of the first English Colony in the new world, and the birth place of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas. When the colony's governor retuned for supplies to England, he got stuck there for three years due to a war with Spain, and when he retuned, the colony had vanished.

Or she could go to Panama, cross the isthmus by land, and get on a boat at a Panamanian port on the Pacific. They didn't have to travel all the way around Cape Horn. It turns out that General Albert Sidney Johnston made that same journey (across the isthmus) to California, and arrived in January 1861, just in time to be called back east to join the Confederate army.

IIRC, she was on the floor in the hallway, and looked like she wasn't healthy. I took it that she had been moved (they couldn't keep her a secret in the hospital for a long time), to recover. And where better than with a man who knew medicine. I doubt she was "OK to leave" and that wagon ride to move her to a "safe space" away from Bullen and people who would have found her out would have been nothing short of excruciating. I did not take it at all that she was living with Samuel before her attack, it was just a remote, secret place for her to recover.

I think the woman was Aurelia.

John Wilkes was definitely the less popular Booth. His father, Junius, was famous and his brother Edwin was considered by some to be this country's best actor. Ever. His inclusion here seems gratuitous. He was in Boston on stage when this was supposed to have happened, so what do they gain by introducing him here and now? We all know the plot will fail. We couldn't have an unknown conspirator? And the Knights of the Golden Circle were not a spy ring, but were instead dedicated to spreading slavery to the west and southwest.

I don't believe it was that Mary greenlighted the camp followers to entertain the men. Just that she understood that men would visit prostitutes and it was a matter of hygiene to treat them for their "social diseases" so that when their services were used they would be clean.

I don't think he ever referred to himself as Neagan. It was always third person. I don't think that was Neagan.

I got my wine all ready for my drinking game and....nothing. I finally gave in and drank without an "Uber" prompt.

The Golden Spike (the final,ceremonial spike in the Transcontinental railroad, wasn't driven until 1869. So no ATSF for our girl.

She may be heading to California by sea, too.

About 10 years ago, my husband and I had the *brilliant* idea to go camping in Key West over Memorial Day weekend. It was easily over 90 degrees during the day and the tent held the heat in. No matter how many vents we opened, the ocean breeze in the evenings didn't move the air and it was stifling in the tent at night. We couldn't get any sleep we were so miserable. As soon as I saw the cooler, I told hoosierdaddy that we should have had one for that trip. Stick a block of ice in there, put the hose into the tent and keep the cooler outside and we would have been much better off. I love the concept. The price, not so much. There are YouTube tutorials on how to make the same thing with a battery powered desk fan, some duct work and a one of those $5 Styrofoam coolers. That is the option we will use if we ever have the insane idea to go camping in Key West in the summer again. (Though I will admit, our campsite was right on the ocean and it was a great view to wake up to)

100% on the medical quiz makes me a Civil War geek. Also knowing the guy from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine (the one in the explanations) plays a mean banjo make mean uber geek.

A law passed in March 1862 prohibited army and navy personnel from spending any resources to return fugitive slaves. The date predates the time of this episode (the celebration at the end of the first episode was for yhe battle of Williamsburg in May 1862). I love this time period but am alright with allowing creative license for dramatic reasons, but this is a huge gaff and it is either the writers not being very careful or being deliberate in villianizing the a Union cause especially when juxtaposed with the "ethical" slave owner.

The Hatch baby lady said her estimate of 20,000 units was just 1/10th of 1% of the changing pad market....except this isn't competing with a $20 changing pad. No one is going to walk into a Babies RUs for a $20 changing pad and see this and say, "oh, let's take this one that costs 15 times more!"<br /><br />Or, "I could have this convertible crib that will grow with m child for years, or this changing pad that will give me 2 weeks of use. Hatch Baby pad it is!" Also, Chris Sacca, shut up. Most people in this country don't live in big cities within walking distance to public transportation. Cars are not dying out you blow hard.

I was so happy to see FPP with blood on his machete on his first moment on screen I was beaming. "I'm so proud of him!"

As Glenn and Enid first saw the walkers surrounding Alexandria, all I could think of was, "If only they had a tin can..." And in that final scene, I almost told my husband, "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!" Glad I wasn't the only one who made that association.

Old style military defenses called abatis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatis

If she had other skills, she would be more marketable and possibly have been able to find other employment. If not in a different industry than at least in a different hotel with the ability to move up to supervision or management. The reality is, if you don't have training or education, you are limited in opportunities. Raising the minimum wage does nothing to lift people up past minimum wage and encourage upward mobility. That does not mean, however, that that GM wasn't an insufferable jerk. He oozed insincerity and his apology sounded like he was darned sorry he got caught bad mouthing someone.

His death is attributed to giving someone another chance. Or several more chances. It is a nice juxtaposition to the crisis of consciousness that Morgan is going to face. And Rick's "we don't take chances". Is there room in the post-ZA world for redemption?

Several,years ago, I was at Shiloh National Military Park, hiking with about 100 other people through the woods with no trails. I had on my hiking boots. And I tripped and fell. Glad I was surrounded by history geeks and not zombies. I would be Tara/Annie. No hope for me at all.