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To: jeffersondem
jeffersondem: "When you stated it the first time I asked: “Why does the mention of “Domestic insurrections” mean it is limited to the months before July, 1776?”
I now ask the same question, again."

No, I gave you a very reasonable answer, which you ignored.
So now you will answer my previous question:


384 posted on 12/03/2017 5:08:28 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK; DiogenesLamp; DoodleDawg; rockrr
“So now you will answer my previous question . . .”

I believe I do owe you an answer to a previous request going back to your post #381.

You asked: “Please post any sources you have that support your earlier claim that Jefferson's reference to “domestic insurrection” in the DOI refers to slave revolts.”

See:https://theamericanscholar.org/domestic-insurrection/

Note especially the following:

“On the American side, meanwhile, the blacks’ uprising—the “domestic insurrections amongst us” that Jefferson complained of in his draft of the Declaration—sowed the widespread panic that the British hoped for, to a disproportionate extent, in fact, considering the actual number of runaways. (The very afternoon of the surrender at Yorktown, one American soldier recorded laconically that he had spent his whole day “collecting Nigars.”) Schama goes so far as to say of Southern patriots: “Theirs was a revolution, first and foremost, mobilized to protect slavery.” “

You might also want to read this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h33.html

You should also take a look at this: https://pdjeliclark.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/he-has-excited-domestic-insurrections-amongst-us-american-slavery-on-the-4th-of-july/

And note well the author's findings: “Who had the king of England “excited?” What “domestic” rebellion did Jefferson and the colonists so fear could erupt in their midst? It turned out that my earlier history classes had omitted something from the American Revolution, key players whose significance was enough to warrant mention and concern in the fledgling nation’s premiere document–slaves.”

385 posted on 12/03/2017 7:34:50 PM PST by jeffersondem
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