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Benjamin’s father was among the founders of the first Reform congregation in the United States, a claim ot pride of South Carolina. The shul described itself as the “Reformed Society of Israelites for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to Its Purity and Spirit”. Later, its members would also play roles in South Carolina as slave owners and supporters of Jim Crow.
Judah went on to practice those principles as Secretary of War, Attorney General and Secretary of State for the Confederacy.
I’m truly puzzled. What importance is it, if there was a Jewish slaveowner, Judah P. Benjamin, in South Carolina in the pre-civil-war era? The only significance I can imagine is that it’s yet another chance for the author, SMS, to needle his sister and myself.
SMS somehow feels that our moving to SC makes our state fair game for his brutal, ferocious, savage, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, brutish, bloodthirsty, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous [choose any one!] diatribes: “What I have found is almost unbelievable. The cradle of the confederacy, remains almost incredibly foreign to any place I have lived. Teen births, gun abuse, anti union laws, racism, … I have relatives who chose to live there but I doubt I would ever want to visit their home”
Freud would have a field day exploring Steve’s antipathy to his family.
I will have to save t5hat stroing
for his brutal, ferocious, savage, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, brutish, bloodthirsty, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous