8. The Disunited States

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So far, in this podcast, I have been reading one chapter each week from the history of America by Rania bint Mahdi, which I recently translated from the Arabic. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve read her account of the American War of Independence, which she rather quaintly terms the First Slaveholder Rebellion in Amrika, or the First Insurrection of White Protestant Gentlemen. We’ll resume her history next week with chapter eight, where she recounts the events between the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitutional Convention of 1787. But this week I wanted to pause the narrative and explain how I came to translate this remarkable document into English.