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Further developing the themes set forth in his classic \u003ci\u003eBarbarians and Romans\u003c\/i\u003e, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this \"Germanic\" setting and reimagining the role of foreigners in the Later Roman Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Empire was not swamped by a migratory Germanic flood for the simple reason that there was no single ancient Germanic civilization to be transplanted onto ex-Roman soil. Since the sixteenth century, the belief that purposeful Germans existed in parallel with the Romans has been a fixed point in European history. Goffart uncovers the origins of this historical untruth and argues that any projection of a modern Germany out of an ancient one is illusory. Rather, the multiplicity of northern peoples once living on the edges of the Empire participated with the Romans in the larger stirrings of late antiquity. 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Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt \"to conjure up the former occupants of these woods.\" Other than the chapter he devoted to them in \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlack Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts\u003c\/i\u003e, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, \u003ci\u003eBlack Walden\u003c\/i\u003e follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for himself after thirty-five years of enslavement. 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