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And an acknowledgment that if you treat people like dogs, they will put a serious hurt on you given the opportunity.

Do you really want to get into that whole master/slave relationship discussion again, non-sequitur? Do you really want to rehash how some slaves refused to leave their masters because they were treated so good? Do you really want to talk about how that in almost 200 years of legal slavery in America there was only one revolt and that one a failure? Do you, non-sequitur?

Hadn't thought of that either, but now that you mention it, hell yes. And don't be stingy about it.

Figures. You libtards are always looking for a handout.....

After for putting up with all your myths, pretzel logic, historical ignorance, overblown sense of regional pride, constant ad hominem attacks, and now, totally bizarre rationalizations like self-flagiation, I think some compensation is in order. Make it cash.

The above paragraph is proof that non-sequitur is still amoung us.

(Should I alert the mods? Hmmmmm.....)

Do you really want to talk about how that in almost 200 years of legal slavery in America there was only one revolt and that one a failure?

Would you care to talk about how amazingly ignorant you are of history?

Here's a partial listing of 'serious' revolts even before Nat Turner's 1831 uprising.
Gloucester County, Virginia--Sept. 1663--This was the first major conspiracy for a possible slave rebellion. The plot by black slaves and white indentured servants was betrayed to the authorities. Several plotters were beheaded.
New York City Slave Rebellion--1712--25 slaves armed with guns and clubs burned down houses on the northern edge of New York City and killed nine whites. The rebels were killed after soldiers arrived. The repercussions of this rebellion resulted in the tortuous execution of 18 participants in the rebellion.
Cato's Conspiracy/Stono Rebellion--1739--Approximately 80 slaves armed themselves and attempted to march toward Spanish Florida from their home area of Stono, South Carolina. When confronted by a group of white militia, a battle ensued. Forty-four blacks and twenty-one whites perished.
New York Conspiracy--March and April, 1741-- Thirty-one slaves and four whites were executed as a result of rumors of a major slave rebellion in New York City. It is unknown whether these rumors were based on fact or were part of a larger paranoia which existed regarding slave uprisings.
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion--1800--Gabriel Prosser, a blacksmith, and his brother Martin, a slave preacher, planned a major rebellion in Virginia. They recruited at least a thousand slaves to their cause and built up a secret cache of weapons in anticipation of marching on the state capital of Richmond. When the day of the revolt arrived though, a violent storm washed out the roads and bridges leading to Richmond. The rebels broke up and Prosser was betrayed by one of his followers. The state militia captured Prosser and he and many of his followers were hanged.
Slave rebellion in St. John the Baptist Parish --Jan 8-10, 1811-- Slave rebellion in Louisiana in which 500 slaves took part and 100 were killed. Louisiana had only recently joined the United States after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Fort Blount--1816--Three hundred fugitive slaves and Florida Indians battled U.S. Army troops at Apalachicola Bay in Florida.
Denmark Vesey's Uprising--1822--Vesey, a free black man living in South Carolina, detested slavery and took great inspiration from stories of Israelite freedom from bondage in the Bible. He began organizing for a major rebellion which would take place in 1822 in the city of Charleston. He and his followers organized into small cells, independent of each other. This way, of a single cell were detected by the authorities, the other rebel cells could survive.
His plan was rather simple. Armed slaves would position themselves outside the houses of whites at night. Then, other slaves would start a major fire in the city. When the white men exited their homes to fight the fire, the slaves would kill them.
Unfortunately for Vesey and his followers, someone betrayed them before they could launch the attack. One of Vesey's companions, who knew the whole plan, turned him in to the authorities. Vesey and the other leaders were hung, but the immensity and ingenuity of the plot terrified southern slave owners.
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