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Narrator: One month after the rebellion. Nat Turner has been on the run ever sense.
Narrator : Nat Turner is laying on the ground unconscious after three men who own a local farm captured and knocked him out in the woods after seeing his wanted poster a few weeks ago.
Man 1: Is this the stupid slave who started that rebellion and tried to attack us?
man 2: Yeah, that looks like the guy. He fits the description.
Man 3: I hear he's worth quite a bit of money
Man 1: Yeah about $700 now after being on the run for so long. Also, for killing all those people in october.
Man 3. Ye
man 2: Ain’t he the one those people angry people killed killed our slaves after the rebellion?
Man 1: Yes you moron that's Nat Turner, the one that killed his
Greenberg, Kenneth S. ed., The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents. New York: Bedford Books, 1996.
Finally, the government was unjust because of their need to treat black males as animals rather than men. During slavery the high level of cruelty towards slaves made it seem as though the man was an animal and was often referred to as such. Douglass didn’t take kindly to how laws had referenced to slaves as “beast of the field” (Douglass, 2011, p.780). He found it ridiculous that when it came to the law the term “man”
Since John Brown went through his death sentence so bravely, I believe that this could have been his purpose from the beginning, not to prompt a slave revolution but to be finished and hence, sacrifice himself to the root. If this is true, then he placed the lives of twenty-three other people in danger which consisted of sixteen people that were slaughtered in the invasion, one passed away from a disease while waiting for his trial, six that were hung for their contribution to the raid and as well as the deaths of Brown’s two sons.
Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel on American history. He was living in the innocent season of his life, in those carefree years before the working age of twelve when a slave boy could romp and run about the plantation with uninhibited glee. Nat in his young years cavorted about the home place as slave children did generally in Virginia. He was first lived in Turner's house, who owned a modest plantationin a remote neighborhood "down county" from Jerusalem. His daytime supervisor was his grandmother, Old Bridget- who regaled the boy with slave tales and stories from the Bible. Nat had become very attached to his grandmother. The Turners had become Methodists, who held prayer services on their farm and took the blacks to Sunday chapel. Among such slaves were Nat's grandmother and his mother, Nancy, a large, spirited, olive-skinned young American, imported to North America before 1808, to toil as bondsman on farms and plantations there. By the time Nat was four or five years old, Nancy was extremely proud of him. Bright-eyed and quick to learn, he stood out among the other children. He never touched liquor, never swore, never played practical jokes and never cared a thing for white people's money. Being a Methodist, the old Master not only approved of Nat's literacy but encouraged him to study the Bible. The preachers and everybody else in the boy's world all remarked that he had too much sense to be raised in bondage, that he " would never be of any service to anyone as a slave.
These 5 men decided on to begin their hunt on July 4th. But then Turner fell ill that day and so the date had to be pushed off until a later date. A little over a month past and then the faithfully day for the revolt came, August 21 1831. He gathered up had men and began the revolt. During this revolt, they did not care if you were man, woman, or child. If you were part of a family that owned a plantation with slaves on it, you would be a target. The first people that were targeted were Joseph Travis and his family, they were Nat Turner’s currently master. After this point they went from plantation to plantation kills any white person they saw and freeing all the slaves too. An article by an unknown author explains the ending moments:
Frederick Douglass corroborated a story about John Parker, one of the black Confederates at Manassas. A Virginia slave, John was sent to Richmond to build batteries and breastworks. After completing this job, he, and his fellow slaves were ordered to Manassas “to fight,” as he said. He was put in an artillery unit with three other black men. On Sunday, July 21, “we opened fire about 10:00 in the morning; couldn’t see the Yankees at all and only fired at random.
Can it be possible that the Northern people have made the negro free, but to be returned, the slave of society, to bear in such slavery the vindictive resentments that the satraps of Davis maintain today towards the people of the north? Better a thousand times for the negro that the government should return him to the custody of the original owner, where he would have a master to look after his well being, than that his neck should be placed under the heel of a society, vindictive towards him because he is free.
He is a myth due to the lack of historical evidence known about him. Although Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner shaped the views of the American population, many different views about Nat Turner are perceived. The views on Nat Turner varied from a hero of oppressed people, murderer of innocent women and children, and a powerful religious leader. William Styron was not a racist, he portrayed the thoughts, actions, and dialect of an African American male during that period in American History. Styron is heavily critiqued over the fact that he is a white male, but he lived in Virginia and he saw and heard about the horrors that went on there when slavery was going on in the south. Though Styron’s novel shaped the way Americans perceived the event, Styron did not intend the story to make such a large impact on the society’s views, even though it ended up being very controversial. Although many people have different opinions on Nat Turner, he will still remain one of the most mysterious historical figures in American
The point that I am trying to prove with my historical investigation is: How did Nat Turner’s rebellion lead to the commencement of the Civil War in the United States thirty years after the insurrection took place. In order to answer this, one must comprehend why the Southampton Insurrection occurred, the influence it left on people and the history of the United States, and the reasons as to why the Civil War was fought. After extensive research, two of my most valuable sources I used were Scot French’s historical book The Rebellious Slave Nat Turner in American Memory and the Rebecca Vaughan House’s project on Nat Turner/1831 Southampton Insurrection Trial & restoration of the Rebecca Vaughan House, located on the Museum of Southampton History.
Southern intellectuals and leaders strongly believed that they were far superior to both slaves and the Northern Society. They believed that slavery was not evil and did not cause dueling in the South. In fact, James Hammond defended the institution of slavery and stated that “stability and peace are the first desires of every slave-holder.” (Pg. 34) He also stated that the idea of riots and bloodsheds happening in the South is untrue and that “scenes of riot and bloodshed have within the last few years disgraced the Northern cities.” While, the Southern cities have not have any instances of it. Hammond also stated that “the only thing that can create a mob, is the appearance of an abolitionist.” (Pg. 34)
John Brown was a white abolitionist who wanted to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a US arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He wanted to recruit black slaves, freed slaves and fugitive slaves for the raid against the south. There were many people who told him he was a dead man or that he couldn't do it but John Brown thought he could, therefore moved onto the next person for recruiting. There was an anonymous letter sent by David J. Gue of Springdale, Iowa, his brother and someone else trying to warn the government about the raid John Brown was planning to Secretary of War John B Floyd but they didn't believe them. This caused President Buchanan to send out a reward for John Browns capture but not the right one. When the time came to begin the raid John Brown left four people behind to act as a rear guard at the K...
Nat Turner’s rebellion created an atmosphere of fear and paranoia among many Whites and as a result needs recognition as a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Snow Riot in D.C. Although Nat Turner’s revolt happened in 1831, four years on the it’s influence and the atmosphere of paranoia created it by it were still very much present in American and more specifically D.C. This becomes clear when considering the facts of the revolt which began on August 22, 1831, when Nat Turner and some fellow slaves snuck into their master's house and killed him and his family before moving from plantation to plantation doing the same to other White families. While the revolt was put down and the seventy slaves with Turner were either arrested or killed and Turner himself was hung two months after the fact, their revolt caused many White communities to feel great fear and paranoia.
One of the most successful slave rebellion in history was the Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Nat Turner was a very religious slave, a preacher, who led a bloody attack on slavery that occurred in Southampton, Virginia in the year of 1831. Turner planned his rebellion after experiencing prophetic visions. The key goal of the rebellion led by Nat Turner was to gain his freedom from slavery. Turner’s revolt killed as many of 50 whites which occurred on August 21,1831. Turner had nearly 70 slaves with him as they moved from house to house killing the white society. The rebellion was so corrupt that it took a military to take down Turner’s rebellion. Turner and nearly 55 other enslaves were captured and executed by the state of Virginia. The outcome of Nat Turner rebellion triggered the whites to reinforce laws for states making things illegal for the black society. Several states passed laws that consisted of being illegal to teach blacks to read and
He opened the eyes of all the Americans and showed them the country’s desperate need for war. According to Douglass, the raid rose unexpected awareness and it was not easy for the situation to be conceived as more abundant in all elements of horror and destruction. The amount of fear and distress that the raid caused helped many historians acknowledge that it was truly a, “pivotal event that pushed the nation closer to a civil war (Douglass).” Karen Whitman agrees with this statement and believes that there is ample proof that Brown was not a madman, but actually was very courageous comparing to other anti-slavery men and women of his generation
When Turner was twenty-one, He ran away from the fields and his overseer Samuel Turner. He spent thirty-days out in the woods trying to survive, praying and hoping to get away and not be caught. Becoming delirious from the hunger he received a vision “Return to the service of my earthly master (Nat Turner Slave Rebellion, Ask.Com)”. Turner was greatly affected by his visions, and interpreted the messages as a sign from Jesus Christ himself. Coming back to the farm, Nat turner started conducting church services, saying that he was a gift from god and can hear messages that god was sending to him. Preaching to the other slaves and white southerners, Nat turner was able to convince the people of the l...