What historians do more than anything else is we teach a radical form of empathy, a radical way of understanding people as different as possible from the sort of society that we were raised in.

Source: Pirates & Pirate Nest in the British Atlantic — Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History by Liz Covart on Apple Podcasts

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