Anti-Slavery statue to be erected in Richmond

[Bill the Cat]

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgini...120f2eb5a.html

A state commission planning an anti-slavery monument in downtown Richmond voted Wednesday to include Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, among a group of 10 African-American figures who will be honored on the statue’s base.

Source: http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nat-turners-rebellion

The rebellion began when Turner’s small band of hatchet-wielding slaves killed his master, Joseph Travis, along with his wife, nine-year-old son and a hired hand as they slept in their beds. Realizing they had left one family member alive in the house, two slaves returned to the Travis home and killed “a little infant sleeping in a cradle” before dumping its body in the fireplace. As they swept through the countryside, Turner’s men freed slaves as they continued the killings. Upwards of 75 of them joined the uprising over the ensuing two days and killed dozens of whites.

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17 of the victims were under the age of 10 and ten of them under the age of five. “Whole families, father, mother, daughters, sons, sucking babes, and school children” were “butchered, thrown into heaps, and left to be devoured by hogs and dogs".

[TheWall]

Why not just get more people to read Frederick Douglass?

[Sparko]

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgini...120f2eb5a.html

A state commission planning an anti-slavery monument in downtown Richmond voted Wednesday to include Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, among a group of 10 African-American figures who will be honored on the statue’s base.

Source: http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nat-turners-rebellion

The rebellion began when Turner’s small band of hatchet-wielding slaves killed his master, Joseph Travis, along with his wife, nine-year-old son and a hired hand as they slept in their beds. Realizing they had left one family member alive in the house, two slaves returned to the Travis home and killed “a little infant sleeping in a cradle” before dumping its body in the fireplace. As they swept through the countryside, Turner’s men freed slaves as they continued the killings. Upwards of 75 of them joined the uprising over the ensuing two days and killed dozens of whites.

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17 of the victims were under the age of 10 and ten of them under the age of five. “Whole families, father, mother, daughters, sons, sucking babes, and school children” were “butchered, thrown into heaps, and left to be devoured by hogs and dogs".

Turner was the first Antifa-BLM member to punch Nazis. well, stab them. And their children.

He sets the example for today's freedom fighters who will continue in his great tradition of killing, maiming and destroying people and property.

[Bill the Cat]

Turner was the first Antifa-BLM member to punch Nazis. well, stab them. And their children.

He sets the example for today's freedom fighters who will continue in his great tradition of killing, maiming and destroying people and property.

The uprising was a key part of Virginia's history, so I have no problem including it in a statue dedicated to the process of how Virginia wrestled with slavery. Despite his and his mob's despicable bloody methods, it is important to understand the significance of the event in the history of Virginia's attitudes on slavery at the time. We can't use moral outrage to pick and choose what we consider significant events worthy of memorializing. Same goes with the Confederate leaders. All were significant in their own way, and all should remain memorialized as parts of Virginia's complex history.