Pat Robertson Quotes


Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.


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Robertson, Pat. The 700 Club. Christian Broadcasting Network, 13 Jan. 2010.

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She was one of the early abolitionists. Despite the Southern attempted repression of information of slave resistance, some of the facts emerged and were well known in the North. The South tried to suppress these incidents lest other slaves get ideas from it. Also the Southerners often maintained that Africa was so primitive and underdeveloped, that the slaves were better off in America; these actions of rebellion belied this notion.


The Indian allies of the French scalped some American colonists which for some whites was akin to the modern reaction to terrorist atrocities. The British and Americans then justified the scalping of their Indian allies as simple retaliation. While Indians had scalped before the whites ever came, the whites accelerated the practice. There was an economic element to scalping. The French “paid” their Indian allies in arms, blankets, trinkets and alcohol by the scalp as it was a crude way of “performance measurement.” Not to be outdone, the English adopted the same custom with the French allied Indians as targets. In North Carolina, for example, the “volunteer” rangers were paid the enormous rate of 10 pounds a scalp.


He goes on to observe that the German’s are the most hated of the Europeans in large part because they mainly trade in rotgut liquor much of it poisoned which has a devastating effect on the Africans. (The English, in contrast had to have all alcohol inspected in London for safety, before it could leave for Africa.) The “kings” to which the Bishop referred are the rural tribal kings of whom there were more than a few. It is not as if there were a unified monarchy. Another interesting observation is that although Turner was one of Americas leading Blacks, he used the term frequently, but never capitalized it.


Darwin was then a very young man, who had personal witnessed the slavery in South America and the Caribbean when he was on his famous expedition on HMS Beagle. See {630961} & {630962}. He was so disgusted with slavery that he hoped there would be armed slave revolutions and takeovers as had occurred in Haiti. Many of the English upper classes were radical when it came to slavery.


The Southerners were terrified at the thought of runaway and freed slaves as soldiers for the Union Army—even moreso than the Union leadership assumed. The Southerners knew far better than the Northerners how badly the slaves had been brutalized and assumed that the Blacks would want the same kind of revenge that they would seek if the roles were reversed.


Holland was trying to write a justification of the particularly barbarous and cruel methods of punishing Negro Slaves. These not only included the whippings, but also crucifixion and burning at the stake. To justify these, Holland gave the above example of what had occurred which in his view justified the “law enforcement” techniques that the South used to “protect” its citizens. Holland sent a copy of this essay to James Madison in the hopes that there might be a change of pubic opinion, not only in the Northern states but even in Virginia which looked upon the other Southern States as backward and barbarian. Apparently, Madison did not think enough of the pamphlet of Holland to even write an acknowledgment and/or that you.


Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
  • Born: March 22, 1930
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Chancellor Regent University, Chairman Christian Broadcasting Network

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, former Republican presidential candidate, and former Southern Baptist minister. Robertson advocates a conservative Christian ideology and is known for his past activities in Republican party politics. He is associated with the Charismatic Movement within Protestant evangelicalism. He serves as chancellor and CEO of Regent University and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). He appears daily on The 700 Club, CBN's flagship television program.