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African American

wildeyed

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1. I knew next to nothing about that.

Reply to brush (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 07:25 PM

May 2016

It makes me angry that I didn't know about that. I know about the Gullah islands off the SC coast and heard of Seminoles but didn't understand there was a connection. And I was taught that there were no successful slave revolts in the US, only in the Caribbean.

Thanks for posting. Fascinating topic.

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I knew of the rebellions of Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser and Demark Vesey, [View all] brush May 2016 OP

I knew next to nothing about that. wildeyed May 2016 #1

And it went on for decades. They successfully kept this covered up all this time. brush May 2016 #2

brush, would you please add this to the Black History thread pinned to the top of this forum?? Number23 May 2016 #3

okay. I'll figure out how to do it. brush May 2016 #4

Number23, I think one of the group hosts has to do that. brush May 2016 #5

Nope, you just go and post in the thread like you would any other. You'll see that lots of people Number23 May 2016 #6