http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/blind-tom-and-the-battle-of-manassas/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Thu, 23 May 2013 14:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/blind-tom-and-the-battle-of-manassas/#comment-15091 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:04:31 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=3851#comment-15091 miss o’connell does us all a disservice here and in her writings by applying her very obvious regional prejudices to her work on blind tom. the first rule of a legitimate historian is to provide sources to support an interpretation, theory or “argument”…here, evidence is rarely offered and judgements are plentiful, ignoring social conditions of the period. blind tom was well cared for, he was likely supportive of the people of his region who were repelling an invasion, and i wonder to whom she would have entrusted the care and career of this autistic wonder, rather than the people who had taken care of him for his entire life…it is entirely unnecessary to inject her personal viewpoint on antebellum politics in an otherwise fascinating biographical subject…but we have been dealing with that since 1850.

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