“A command”, of history, is an interesting choice of words. Do any of us lay claim to such a thing?

Sans Blockchain, there seems to exist many, often contradictory studies of history, so it seems a highly arguable subject. We can only decide for ourselves which make more logical sense to us personally. I thought this one was quite good:

Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982

What do you think of it?