Lyle,

In retrospect, I was probably thinking of John Brown as the uprising slave 
who was supported by a number of northerners, Quakers, and abolitionists. It 
was a point made in a book about Robert Gould Shaw entitle "Blue Eyed Child 
of Fortune The Civil War Letters of Robert Gould Shaw" edited by Russell 
Duncan with a forward by William S. McFeeley.

But, the point I was making could be applied to either Nat Turner or John 
Brown. They both took the same risks as the leaders of the American 
Rebellion against Britain. The charge of Mass Murder could be laid equally 
against Nat Turner or against the presidents who ordered the bombs dropped 
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Viet Nam, or Baghdad, just to name those in my 
lifetime. It is all "mass murder", and the numbers are not so severe in the 
case of either Nat Turner or John Brown, as in the ones listed above. Nat 
Turner led an army of insurrection. How many armies of insurrection have we 
supported over the decades just in the 20th century? How is Nat Turner's 
"crime" so different?

Anne

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