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To: Ohioan
Bill, it's a weak, morally reprehensible argument. The "absence" of slave revolts said nothing about their will or desire and everything about the horrendous oppresive legal/social system that did not allow slaves to walk around in the fields without BELLS affixed to their persons. For Pete's sake, man, you are on JUPITER on this one.

The historical evidence is indisputable, irrefutable, and (I know I'm treading thin here) it is really only racial extremists who make such repulsive contentions any moer. I sincerely hope you aren't one of those, and just aren't informed of the historical evidence. I note you have not yet read the book I mentioned. Read it, look at the data, then we'll talk. No more communcations from you will be noted until you are willing to confront some evidence.

85 posted on 07/16/2003 6:40:03 AM PDT by LS
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To: LS
What is weak, and morally reprehensible is your need to hurl aspersions against your fellow Americans who had a different system, than you or I think was a good system. While there were some harsh slave owners, there were many who were not. There were also laws which protected the rights of slaves in every State but Louisiana.

As for reading your material, I have read a great deal of such material. As a student at Oberlin College, I had access to the vicious propaganda that the Anti-Slavery Societies put out against the South from the 1830s up until the War. It was a bad as anything in Pravda. The facts are as I represent, and I suggest you reread my last post, which correctly describes the type of argument you are using.

If I wanted to respond to a listing of individual incidents, rather than looking at the broad picture, as an argument, I would cite to you the thousands upon thousands of Southern Negroes who named their children--even well into the 20th Century for prominent Whites--prominent slave holding Whites. (That was why Cassius Clay changed his name, when he became a Moslem.) But your type of argument is not a rational one, so I will not respond in kind.

The reason that Booker T. Washington was such an effective leader was because his references to behavior and sentiment were well known by those who had lived through the era. The sort of hate spreading effort, you seem to be embracing, really never got past a narrow range of Northern Abolitionist fanatics--i.e., the propaganda in the Oberlin Library, that I mentioned--until all of those who had lived through the era, had died off.

Be honest. Are you really interested in a fair assessment of Southern History, or in justifying sociopaths like John Brown, and the obsessed Thad Stevens?

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

91 posted on 07/16/2003 9:09:18 AM PDT by Ohioan
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