Erin Winslow (IN RESPONSE TO A POST ON TA)
We (I am from SC even though I live in Sweden) also have a heritage of Freedom Fighters who are/were just as much South Carolinians as the confederates. Modjeska Monteith Simpkins was one such person. (this article hardly does her justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modjeska_Monteith_Simkins) I had the honor of hearing her speak when I was about 17 or 18 years old. Denmark Vessey was another Freedom Fighter as were the Grimke sisters.
One of the reasons I started my blog was to promote awareness of our REAL history and counter the “gone with the wind” style narratives about the old south that are just as much fiction as anything I’ve written!
When my Swedish friend and colleague wrote a world history of slavery a few years ago he described the southern slave-owners as having “an almost fascist level of contempt for human weakness” (translation mine). This is certainly not an accident or coincidence.