"As a result, Parker and Jean Celestin pimped black suffering for financial gain and proved that they have no respect for black history or for the people who fought for our freedom."
Does that include all the whites world wide (this means Britain, that passed the 1807 ban on international slave trade (all European countries except Portugal joined and the U.S. outlawing importation of slaves in the same year) as well as the hundreds of thousands of whites who fought against it? I somehow think that even this black historian would have some problems with telling the full factual circumstances around the uprising. Black women were not raped as much as they saw birthing their masters offspring as a way to improve their own and their children's lot. This is recorded in history. What isn't recorded is all these claims of rapes by white owners. Mating with slaves was considered socially repugnant, even a sin.
An historically accurate film of the Nate Turner revolt would have to portray his owner who he said treated him kindly. It would also show that mostly women and children were slain, because the men were absent, off attending of all things, a Christian revival meeting. (So God uses this to allow the murder of women and children)? They used swords and knives since Turner wished for stealth in the night so as to not spread alarm due to the report of firearms. Also part of the facts is that some blacks died defending their white owners against the rebels.
Also an issue worth noting is that the rebels had access to all these weapons including firearms because up to that time, owners allowed many slaves to hunt for their own benefit and also sometimes paid them for game they had taken. Some owners were so benevolent that they allowed their slaves to save up money this way and eventually buy their freedom. After the rebellion, not of these things were allowed. Conditions grew harsher and agitation from the North increased, ironically mostly by Bible believing Christian groups (Quakers, etc.).
I think that an factual film (or book) would also be a good place to examine how Turner perverted Christianity into an excuse for murder. Even Moses left Pharaoh and his troops to God's tactics. And there's the sticky problem of the Ten Commandments; "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Turner took an eclipse of the moon as a sign from God that it was time to act. How an eclipse turns into a sign from the Christian god is interesting to me and worth exploring. Perhaps here is where we can find remnants of African superstition interjecting itself into Christianity?
"As a result, Parker and Jean Celestin pimped black suffering for financial gain and proved that they have no respect for black history or for the people who fought for our freedom."
Does that include all the whites world wide (this means Britain, that passed the 1807 ban on international slave trade (all European countries except Portugal joined and the U.S. outlawing importation of slaves in the same year) as well as the hundreds of thousands of whites who fought against it? I somehow think that even this black historian would have some problems with telling the full factual circumstances around the uprising. Black women were not raped as much as they saw birthing their masters offspring as a way to improve their own and their children's lot. This is recorded in history. What isn't recorded is all these claims of rapes by white owners. Mating with slaves was considered socially repugnant, even a sin.
An historically accurate film of the Nate Turner revolt would have to portray his owner who he said treated him kindly. It would also show that mostly women and children were slain, because the men were absent, off attending of all things, a Christian revival meeting. (So God uses this to allow the murder of women and children)? They used swords and knives since Turner wished for stealth in the night so as to not spread alarm due to the report of firearms. Also part of the facts is that some blacks died defending their white owners against the rebels.
Also an issue worth noting is that the rebels had access to all these weapons including firearms because up to that time, owners allowed many slaves to hunt for their own benefit and also sometimes paid them for game they had taken. Some owners were so benevolent that they allowed their slaves to save up money this way and eventually buy their freedom. After the rebellion, not of these things were allowed. Conditions grew harsher and agitation from the North increased, ironically mostly by Bible believing Christian groups (Quakers, etc.).
I think that an factual film (or book) would also be a good place to examine how Turner perverted Christianity into an excuse for murder. Even Moses left Pharaoh and his troops to God's tactics. And there's the sticky problem of the Ten Commandments; "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Turner took an eclipse of the moon as a sign from God that it was time to act. How an eclipse turns into a sign from the Christian god is interesting to me and worth exploring. Perhaps here is where we can find remnants of African superstition interjecting itself into Christianity?