On Jul 1, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:

> Lyle,
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> I just checked google for a couple of sites. You can interpret them  
> as you will:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
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> http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/natturner/
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> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
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> http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASturner.htm
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> http://www.melanet.com/nat/nat.html
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> http://www.historybuff.com/library/refslave.html
The "story" of Nat Turner is well known and does not differ  
substantially among any of the URL's you list.
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> This is from the first entries in Google. I overlooked none of  
> them. It would seem that "mass murder" is in the eyes of the  
> beholders. To put down this "insurrection", hundred of blacks were  
> tortured and killed. So, who were the "mass murderers"?
Another fine example of relativism. Nat Turner was an exemplar of how  
not to achieve a goal. His actions were exactly what the  
establishment feared most and which would naturally enough play into  
anyone's fears. The reaction was almost primal. The result was that  
innocent people were killed, laws were passed that were ever more  
draconian in response and the cause of freedom for black people was  
set back even farther. What an amazingly good definition of futility.  
Turner's intellectual contribution to history was his belief that  
white people were to be killed as a means of starting an  
insurrection. No real plan, just a sort of generalized instruction to  
slaughter. That is no comparison worth mentioning as compared with  
that of GW & TJ. Thanks for proving my point.

Lyle
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