Aedanus Burke

Ancient Planter and First Fleeter

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@matthewdmarsden We used to be really good at public executions on both sides of the Atlantic

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Hysteria and folly are a common theme in American history, the Hartford Convention could be described the same way. Thomas Cooper of the South Carolina College is called the Schoolmaster of Secession by some but he doesn’t really start to think about it any more than everyone else did until the Nullification Crisis. Also the federal union was a different animal at that time which needs to be considered when talking about these things.

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Highly recommended book

[The Old World Show @theoldworldshow]

Fleming shows that the radical abolitionists started the War Between the States, completely demolishing conventional narratives about the war

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@NotLeeam It doesn’t do that, there’s plenty of blame to go around, but it does trace the origins of the problem. Lacy Ford’s work is very good and traces the problem from a different perspective than this book.

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@SargeJohnForge I’m pretty sure that’s covered in the book. Fire-eaters were a response to the abolitionists

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@acrimonyand They’re still trying to police language if you talk about anything they disagree with like it matters.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

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Flag of the 2nd Spartan Regiment of Militia which recruited men from modern day Spartanburg and Union Counties in South Carolina during the American Revolution. This flag was preserved in one family for almost two and half centuries. A company based not far from from the area where this regiment was raised has made a reproduction, you can find it here: https://t.co/YUvTah5o5h

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@ReadyinSpT @whoismrzero Yes, that’s him

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Wade Hampton III 1818-1902 was one of the South’s greatest outdoorsmen in the antebellum period and came from one of the region’s wealthiest families. He was a Lieutenant General in the War and later South Carolina’s Redemption Governor. With the election of Hampton the trials a tribulations of Reconstruction came to an end.

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@dogfan1987 Sometimes, call the Sumter Historical Society

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Milford Plantation is South Carolina’s finest Greek Revival home. Constructed 1839-42 this house was built with central heat and indoor plumbing. It’s location in rural Sumter County and building cost of 125,000 dollars earned it the name Manning’s Folly.

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@DawsonRicketts I’ll look for that book. Thanks

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@DawsonRicketts Yes, or at least he hunted out there a good bit.

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@JayRock_QueenCi @JMurdock3890 Thank you for the kind words. I’m on a reconstruction era roll at the moment with some side trips into other times.

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@whoismrzero Yea, Hammond was a scoundrel

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Milford Plantation is South Carolina’s finest Greek Revival home. Constructed 1839-42 this house was built with central heat and indoor plumbing. It’s location in rural Sumter County and building cost of 125,000 dollars earned it the name Manning’s Folly.

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Millwood was built about 1830 outside of Columbia South Carolina by Wade Hampton II and was the boyhood home of Wade Hampton III. His sisters were living here when the house was burned in 1865 and today only the ruins remain. The land is still owned by Hampton family descendants. One of the sisters of Wade II and her husband built Milford in Sumter County which still survives and is very similar to what the central part of Millwood is believed to have looked like.

[Charleston Daily @ChuckTownDaily]

Pink is as pink does in Charleston; SC

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@booksandbbq Highly recommended, their collections have so many unique items and it’s the grandfather of libraries in the south to boot.

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@booksandbbq The Charleston Library Society has his original journals, I saw them a few years ago.