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That paragraph is true. But it is not truth . Truth includes the feeling of a mother in 1950s America abandoning her dark-skinned child because she still lives under slavery’s ghost. Truth includes the way a man like Turner reads the Bible and sees not salvation but righteous vengeance. Truth includes the way white Southerners, after 1831, looked at every Black face with heightened paranoia, a paranoia that never entirely left.

Because the rebellion is not over. It’s just rising. toni sweets a brief american history with nat turner better