The Washington Post, September 22nd, 1999
It has been said that one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. Still, I am baffled by anyone who makes a hero out of Nat Turner, who led a band of black slaves on a bloody rampage in Southampton County, Va., on Aug. 22, 1831. Like John Brown, whom J. Randolph Watson also eulogizes in his Sept. 4 letter, Nat Turner found religious justification for wanton murder. John Brown led six men, including four of his sons, to a cabin of a pro-slavery man named James Doyle at Pottawatomie Creek, Kan., in 1856. Announcing that they were the "Northern Army," Brown's party killed Mr. Doyl...
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