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Ben Tillman- Interesting
Jun 11, 2020, 1:06 PM
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"Tillman ... was a great man," she wrote. After leading the white populist uprising in South Carolina, Tillman rammed through the constitution of 1895. "It forbade marriage between whites and Negroes and prohibited mixed schools," she reported with satisfaction. Through poll taxes and terror, African Americans were barred from the ballot box, or, as Oliphant euphemistically put it, "Tillman's ideas prevailed, and Negroes were discouraged by various means from voting." She had only one criticism of Tillman: "The great blot on Tillman's career was his treatment of Wade Hampton, the state's great hero."
Ben Tillman's long and bloody public career began in 1876 at what would ultimately be called the Hamburg Massacre.
The then 29-year-old Tillman led the members of the Sweetwater Sabre Club, a.k.a. the Edgefield Redshits, against a local militia group, all black. Several African-American militia men were killed in a pitched battle with red-shirt-wearing white terrorists. After the militia surrendered, five of them were called out by name and executed. A few weeks later, when vigilantes captured a black state senator named Simon Coker, Tillman was present when two of his men executed the prisoner while he was on his knees praying.
Later, the terrorist leader Tillman explained his intentions on that fateful July 8 day: "It had been the settled purpose of the leading white men of Edgefield to seize the first opportunity that the Negroes might offer them to provoke a riot and teach the negroes a lesson; as it was generally believed that nothing but bloodshed and a good deal of it could answer the purpose of redeeming the state from Negro and carpetbag rule." In a 1909 speech at a Red Shirt reunion in Anderson, Tillman reiterated this point, noting that he believed in "terrorizing the Negroes at the first opportunity by letting them provoke trouble and then having the whites demonstrate their superiority by killing as many of them as was justifiable."
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Inappropriate comment, and I apologize for it, but
Jun 11, 2020, 1:11 PM
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"Redshits" made me LOL; pretty sure that was a typo, either on your part or the person who wrote what you copied and pasted. Maybe it was intentional, I don't know, but it struck me funny.
The overall content of the article did not strike me as funny at all.
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Re: Inappropriate comment, and I apologize for it, but
Jun 11, 2020, 1:16 PM
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Actually the typo is appropriate.
Message was edited by: CaliforniaTiger®
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Re: Ben Tillman- Interesting
Jun 11, 2020, 3:10 PM
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As much as hate the thought of changing the name of Tillman Hall if all that is true, I am okay with it now.
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Re: Ben Tillman- Interesting
Jun 11, 2020, 3:24 PM
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What led to his namesake on the building? Money/donation I suppose? What s the fear with his name being removed?
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Re: Ben Tillman- Interesting
Jun 11, 2020, 5:32 PM
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Same here. Just change the name of Tillman hall back to its original name. This was obviously a very bad person. This has convinced me to see the light on the issue of Tillman Hall.
That was the last time I will call it that.
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