Elizabeth,
How often are school children and women taken in the violence that results
from a conflict of values. Would it have been a better "rebellion" if only
armed men had been slain? It was certainly not the first or the last time
that innocents died along with the "enemy". So, why is this one murder, and
the other honored as our Revolutionary War?
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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Subject: Re: Nat Turner Rebellion
> Nat Turner's victims included a yard full of school children and women.
> Puleez, with the freedom fighter. I doubt that 10 percent of his victims
> were slave owners.
>
> Elizabeth
>
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> Subject: Re: Nat Turner Rebellion
>
>>John Paul Jones was a pirate
>
> Not quite; I would suggest -
>
> Callo, Joseph. John Paul Jones: America's Fist Sea Warrior. Annapolis, MD:
> Naval Institute Press, 2006
>
> John Paul ( he added the "Jones") was far from being a pirate ... and you
> probably would not want to yell that he was a "pirate" at a Cavaliers home
> game. John Paul had a vast and varied (hands-on) naval education; piracy
> would have been low on his list of occupations.
>
>>In general, Nat Turner should be taught about as a "freedom fighter".
>
> Nat Turner was a cold-blooded killer ... period.
>
>> Typically, the slaveowners over-reacted to his attempt and squashed
> the cry for freedom under more oppression.
>
> Uhm, you don't suppose that had anything small thing to do with the fact
> that he arbitrarily murdered 60 people do you?
>
> Teaching an elightened view to students is one thing, but teaching that
> Nat Turner was a freedom fighter is way out there, IMO.
>
> R. Burnett Jenkins
>
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