Learning

“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
-William Butler Yeats

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• “A Little More About Mr. Lincoln”

• “Abraham Lincoln: America’s Greatest War Criminal”

• “Honest Abe Wasn’t Honest”

• “Targeting Civilians: Lincoln as a War Criminal”  

• “War Crimes Against Confederate Prisoners in NY”

• “Lincoln’s Mass Hanging of 300 Native Indians”

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SECESSION and INDEPENDENCE

• “Secession and Liberty”

• “John C. Calhoun Was Right”

•  The Secession Convention

• “To Preserve the Union (and make a little money for my friends)”

• “When Liberation Comes”

• “They Aren’t What they Use to Be”

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CONFEDERATE FLAG

• “The Universal Symbol of the Spirit of Liberty”

• “The Confederate Flag: Should We Get Rid of It?”

• “Why do the Neo-Cons Hate Dixie So?”

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SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY

• “A Southern View of History: The War for Southern Independence”

• 1764 Presbyterian Scots-Irish Immigration to SC

• The Cherokee People’s Secession and Union with the South

• “Early German Settlers of South Carolina”

• “History of the Cherokee - The Thomas Legion”

• “Life in South Carolina in the 1700’s”

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“That the style of this country be hereafter the State of South Carolina.” (Article I of SC’s first Constitution)

“Be it therefore constituted and enacted, by his excellency Rawlins Lowndes, esq., president and commander-in-chief in and over the State of South Carolina, by the honorable the legislative council and general assembly, and by the authority of the same.” (Opening of SC’s first Constitution) 

“That all persons who shall be chosen and appointed to any office or to any place of trust, civil or military, before entering upon the execution of office, shall take the following oath: ” I, A. B., do acknowledge the State of South Carolina to be as free, sovereign, and independent State…” (from Article XXXVI of SC’s first Constitution)

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Free South Carolina!