[From "Southern Apologetics – “Whipped Peter,” and the Problem of Human Gullibility"]

I was in a (mostly one-sided) email conversation with a blogger-correspondent[…]Initiated by my correspondent’s posting of an interesting interview conducted with an 82-year-old black woman and former slave named Millie Barber[…]

Hello, [name redacted][…]
You wrote in your preface to Millie’s interview that,
“The most egregious part of her colorful narrative relates to her parents being separated on different plantations“[…]
Seems to be more an emotion-based reaction[…]in the vast majority of such cases, the father was separated from the family because of his[…]abusive and violent nature and tendencies[…]masters tried to solve and enforce within such families in the best way they could[…]

The following is what I wrote my correspondent in a couple of follow-up message

The mass of people in any given society tend to be very gullible and uninformed[…]If intelligent people have learned anything at all from the COVID 19 insanity, that fact ought to be it[…]“A picture is worth a thousand words” is often cited in these little write-ups of mine[…]Photos of “Whipped Peter” and the emaciated bodies of former prisoners held at Andersonville[…]
I had something of an epiphany concerning that photo in particular when I was watching one of those television documentaries about a “Super-Max”[…]It was a distinct possibility[…]“Whipped Peter” was very much like these violent felons[…]
The situation at Andersonville is another story entirely of course, but the same principle applies[…]

I could literally “go on and on and on,” quoting[…]from dozens of original sources regarding the question of antebellum slavery[…]all in support of the “default” position I personally take in defending our noble, gallant and honorable ancestors