I was interested to learn from Wills’ essay of a strong connection between the second amendment and slave rebellions…   Google turns up lots of discussion and disagreements.   

	But I presume that the following is an authoritative account and that Wills is right?

http://www.carltbogus.com/edmund-a-blog/72-the-hidden-history-of-the-second-amendment-redux <http://www.carltbogus.com/edmund-a-blog/72-the-hidden-history-of-the-second-amendment-redux>




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Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 
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http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/>

http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html>
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