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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Visionaries:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>The discussion of the Wilson / Wilkins
infamous little pamphlet “Southern Slavery As It Was” is not a new
topic on V2020. SSAIW has been roundly condemned by academics,
theologians, and the majority of this community. It’s defenders are
few, and generally limited to the ragged remnant of Neo/Paleo Confederates who
think <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Gone With the Wind</span></i> is
non-fiction. To those of us familiar with SSAIW it was a great relief
when Canon Press stopped publishing this ill-considered, poorly written, historically
inaccurate, heavily plagiarized, piece of trash. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>Sadly, SSAIW appears to have been given new life by Blue
Bonnet Press <<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><a
href="http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/">http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/</a>>
in the book </span></font><i><span style='font-style:italic'>The War Between The
State</span></i>s.<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> Blue Bonnet
Press is owned by John Dwyer. Mr. Dwyer holds an undergraduate degree in
Journalism, has engaged in unspecified “post-graduate studies in
history” (note: no degree listed) and holds a Masters from Dallas
Theological Seminary. He is employed at </span></font></span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Coram</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Deo</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Academy</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> <<a
href="http://www.coramdeoacademy.org/content/teacherpages/index.php#dallas">http://www.coramdeoacademy.org/content/teacherpages/index.php#dallas</a>>
a member school of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, Doug Wilson’s
accrediting agency for Christian schools modeled on </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Logos</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>School</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Dwyer, principal author</span></font><font
face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia'> and editor, describes his 700
+ page effort as a book that:</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;color:black'>“[refuses] to cater to anyone's notion
of the truth other than that of history itself. Most contemporary so-called
"scholarship" on most time periods and particularly of the American
War Between the States is so blinded by materialistic, utilitarian,
Marxist-oriented perspectives on government, society, and history that it fails
the "smell test" for what is accurate history, not to mention how
problematic its judgments and assumptions are to those who hold a Christian
world view and a traditionalist perspective of Constitutional, Republican
American government.” http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/wbts_interview.html</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Mr. Dwyer did not tackle this magnum opus
single-handedly. He was aided by George Grant, J. Steven Wilkins,
Doug Wilson, and (former) secondary principal at </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Logos</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>School</span></font><font
color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>, Tom
Spencer. Study Guides for the book are online at: </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/wbts_sg_part1.html">http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/wbts_sg_part1.html</a>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>Chapters 7 and 8 are titled “Southern
Slavery As It Was”. The Study Guide for these chapters include such
penetrating questions as:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=navy
face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:navy'>“4.</span></font><font
face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia'>. Using
the arguments given in this chapter and others you may think applicable, give
your opinion on the question debated in 1845 by two Presbyterian pastors: “Is
SlaveHolding in Itself Sinful, and the Relation Between Master and Slave, a Sinful
Relation?”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>5.
In your opinion, how useful to understanding and judging antebellum slavery is an
analysis of the practice within the context of Biblical principles on the
subject?”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'><a href="http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/pdf/SGQs_Ch_7.pdf">http://www.bluebonnetpress.com/pdf/SGQs_Ch_7.pdf</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>Clearly, SSAIW has once again reared its ugly head to
contaminate the minds and stunt the intellectual growth of children whose Kirk-enthralled
parents lack the mother-wit to recognize the difference between the racist,
Neo-Confederate cretins pretending to be legitimate historians and authentic,
academically-trained scholars. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>It became apparent to me many years ago that Doug Wilson is
not averse to financial gain at the expense of truth. Nonetheless, his share
of royalties from this $39.00 book are undoubtedly minimal. Who among us
would be willing to target an audience of children with the grotesquely deceitful
content of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Southern Slavery As It Was</span></i>
in exchange for a pocket full of pennies? Once again, I ask Doug
Wilson, have you no shame?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>Rose Huskey</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'> </span></font></p>
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