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Tom Bensing

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in Reading, PA, The United States
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History, Biography

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AUTHOR BIO
Tom Bensing, who earned history degrees from Penn State and Millersville (Pa.) universities, has studied Sand Creek and Native American/white relations for the past seven years. That research led to his interest in Silas Soule’s story.



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Average rating: 3.84 · 37 ratings · 10 reviews · 1 distinct work
Silas Soule: A Short, Event...
3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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“His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of innocents, when other men, such as Harry Richmond, took advantage of being suddenly unfettered by conventional standards to do whatever the darkest side of human nature desired.”
― Tom Bensing, Silas Soule: A Short, Eventful Life of Moral Courage
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“The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, we no longer feel bound by moral considerations in becoming perpetrators.”
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