[WhiskeyPapa]

That isn't relevant to the point under discussion.

You said -anybody- could propose -anything-, this being America and all.

But that wasn't correct, was it?

Walt

[lentulusgracchus]

Sure it was. Anybody could propose anything! That included free blacks and, I suppose, under some circumstances blacks that weren't free. Firearms laws prohibited slaves from owning or carrying firearms, but they sometimes carried them anyway in service. And sometimes they proposed things. Denmark Vesey proposed a lot....so did Nat Turner.