It might be worth adding that an important postscript to Nat Turner’s rebellion was some discussion in the state legislature of slavery and whether it could be done away with; that led W&M president Thomas Roderick Dew, an eminent economist, to write his chilling Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832.

	https://archive.org/details/reviewofdebateon00dewt <https://archive.org/details/reviewofdebateon00dewt>

	Dew’s tone is precisely that of the speaker in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” but, of course, with no irony behind it. He’s simply applying the immutable laws that govern property and economics.  Though he and his faculty are W&M’s special shame, Mr. Jefferson’s university tried to entice him to Charlottesville in 1845.

	W&M dug his bones up in Paris in 1939 and reinterred him in the Wren crypt after a fulsome ceremony, a further emblem, as if one was needed, that blacks were not welcome here.

> 
> Out of the Box has posted a new item, '"Nat's War": The Southampton Slave Rebellion of 1831’
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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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