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Bennett Barrow was blinded by the fact that he needed slavery. He tried to make it seem right and as if he were treating the slaves justly, so he paid attention to a self-contradicting theory instead. I wonder how he treated his kids. | Bennett Barrow was blinded by the fact that he needed slavery. He tried to make it seem right and as if he were treating the slaves justly, so he paid attention to a self-contradicting theory instead. I wonder how he treated his kids. | ||
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| + | In this passage i found it hard not to wonder about cases of incest.... I know it's taboo, but it seems to me that many of these slaves who where not allowed to marry others, especially on much smaller plantations, would resort to a romance within the family to satisfy sexual needs. Do we know anything about this? --Jessica Lawrie | ||
== Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | == Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | ||
