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To: lentulusgracchus

Slaves in Haiti were essentially worked to death and died the in the tens of thousands every year from the brutality. As bad as conditions were in the South they were nowhere as bad as in Haiti and they didn't outnumber the whites ten to one as there.

However, you apologists are not going to admit that conditions on the plantations could provoke MEN to revolt are you? Must have been the abolitionists fault tempting the weak-minded again.


707 posted on 11/22/2004 1:33:31 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Is this your way of saying that you're glad all the white people were killed in Haiti?

Or is there some argument in there that refutes the historical fact, that the slaves killed every white person they got their hands on, without exception (save only one, who was sheltered by Toussaint L'Ouverture because she taught him to read)?

To redirect to my original point, which you are trying to lead us away from with relativistic waffling and snarking at the white slavocracy, white Southerners lived among black slaves in an environment unknown to the Abolitionists, in which the white population was always at risk of destruction by slave revolt. It wasn't an exercise in the abstractions of the abolition meeting for them. It was life-and-death. Henry Beecher and his sister never had that in the scales.

765 posted on 11/22/2004 7:25:27 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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