BroadCityChessClub

How do you balance the importance of incorporating historic data with the threat of overfitting your model to the past?

I just found out about you within the past day or two, so I apologize if I'm asking questions you've answered elsewhere.

Have you seen or heard about school study media (textbooks, lectures, etc.) that make the sort of egregious statements you document?

Do you have any insight into why the idea that just being a slave isn't bad enough to want to escape slavery? It's a popular trope in fiction, too - usually in the form of explicit depictions of brutalizing or torturing slaves being used to justify their desire to escape. Have you noticed a certain type of person or mindset behind holding that idea?

Thank you for all the work you've done, by the way, both as @afamhistfail and as a historian. (Is that the correct title?)