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To: Lee'sGhost

I've always maintained that rebellion against totalitarianism is a good thing.

And yet y'all got so upset at Nat Turner and Denmark Vessey.

65 posted on 08/27/2004 7:08:13 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)

To: Non-Sequitur

not really. most southerners didn't know who they were.

it was a tempest in the local area & little noticed elsewhere.

in point of fact, most people in the US couldn't READ, thus what the papers said amounted to ZILCH to the masses.

free dixie,sw

83 posted on 08/27/2004 8:40:10 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)

To: Non-Sequitur

"And yet y'all got so upset at Nat Turner and Denmark Vessey."

I'm not that old.

104 posted on 08/27/2004 11:08:19 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)

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