mddm: dialectics of master & slave

* "i heard a loud noise in the heavens and the spirit instantly appeared to me 
and said the serpent was loosened, and christ had laid down the yoke he had 
borne for the sins of man, and that i should take it on and fight against the 
serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the 
last should be first." --- nat turner ---

quoted after r. newman/m. sawyer: everybody say freedom. everything you need to 
know about african-american history. new york 1996: plume/penguin, pp. 68f.

"what we know primarily about african-american slave revolts is that there were 
many more of them, and they were much more important than the conventional 
history books generally admit. the planter class played down slave rebellions 
for two reasons: theoretically, because revolution contradicted their myth of 
contented and docile slaves; and, pragmatically, because the masters were deeply 
fearful that news of any one 'servile insurrection,' as they were called, might 
inspire others." (65)


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