ChuckRocks
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Fascinating Subject. Non-evidential subjectionism is always fun as long as everyone gets to play and no one gets his eye shot out.
First; I am not a scholar of African or Colonial America Slings. I can only suppose that if I were a slave and had the knowledge of sling warfare I would have made use of it; I would have not submitted to be taken into slavery. Furthermore, I would have led a slinged rebellion. Armed peoples are called citizens. BUT, not seeing any evidence of slingging by slaves I can only draw the conclusion that they didn't have that knowledge. And as a side note, my friends serving as missionarys in Coast d'Ivory have not seen any sling activity.
But what about schoolboys in Boston? The Boston Massacre is said to have come about from schoolboys throwing snowballs (laced with rocks) at the Red Coats and got shot in return. Never bring a snowball to a gun fight. I am sure these boys had the lesson of David and Goliath in their Sunday School class. (Yes, they had those then.) And being all American red-blooded boys, they would have re-invented the sling based on their teacher's lessons. If therefore, they had access to a servicable sling, why screw around with snowballs when provoking the British?
Can we suppose that the slings they used were servicable? Or should we presume that these supposed boys had no real understanding of the awesomeness of our mutual love, the sling? I propose the latter; they didn't know how to make good slings for beaning the Brits in Beantown.
I do not know of any slinging in Colonial America
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