The Painfully Obvious Reason Why Palestinians Don’t Condemn Hamas
A call for Palestine’s freedom is not a call for Israel’s destruction.
On August 21st, 1831, one month shy of his 31st birthday, Nat Turner carried out the bloodiest slave rebellion in U.S. history.
Like many of his fellow slaves, Turner was deeply religious, often seen praying and fasting and studying the Bible. But unlike his fellow slaves, Turner heard voices in his head as he worked in the fields. He saw signs from God in the sky and among the leaves. And one of those signs, an eclipse that he interpreted as a black man’s hand covering the sun, he took as a signal to kill every white person in Southampton County.
Turner, at the head of a band of just six slaves, tore through the local homesteads. They beat women to death, murdered babies in their cribs, and recruited an army of allies from their dead masters. All told, they killed around sixty white people.
You can probably guess what happened next.
Within two days, a militia of over three thousand armed men, backed by three companies of artillery, had killed every black person they even suspected of participating in the revolt, mounting their heads on spikes as a warning to other would-be rebels.
