Nat Turner Revolution

The slaves used rebellions or anti-slavery movements as a form of resistance against slavery. However, the result of slave insurrections was mass executions, and many of them avoided these rebellions for the fear of being executed. The famous insurrections in the American history were the Gabriel Prossey's conspiracy in 1800, Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, and the Stono Rebellion of 1739. Among these rebellions, only the Nat

Nat Turner's rebellion made a lot of slave owners nervous because close to 55 whites were killed and they needed to keep their slaves and plantations in order.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion is just one example of a slave uprising. Nat Turner encouraged rebel slaves to kill their slaveholders during this rebellion, and Southern’s were afraid of more slave revolts after this occurrence. Also, the Pottawatomie Massacre left Southerners in fear after the abolitionists had killed five people in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. Lastly, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry pushed the South’s wanting to secede even greater.

How does a black man born into slavery get an education and rise up against the fate he was born into? In 1831, a slave by the name of Nat Turner lead the largest slave uprising in American history. Slaves murdered their own owners, not sparing women or children. Nat Turner can be considered a hero or a villain, depending on who you ask. But in order to take a reasonable side, it comes down to a few key questions: Can this murder spree be justified by the fact that bondage-bound slaves were finally freed? How does a beaten group of people rise up against the lives they were born into? But most importantly, did this rebellion speed up the elimination of slavery, or slow it down?

Nat Turner was the leader of this rebellion and many slaves took apart of it. They killed 55 to 65 people during this rebellion. The rebellion was stopped within more than 3 days but Turner hid for two months while the others who participated got caught. They killed 56 slaves who were involved in this rebellion. Even though some slaves didn’t participate, they also got punished.

The Stono Rebellion was at the time the biggest slave rebellion to ever take place in the American colonies. It came at a time when owning slaves was one of the accepted things in the colonies and the colonists depended on the labor the slaves were doing. Some colonies entire economies depended on it. In South Carolina, there were more slaves than free men in the colony. This was because of the African slave trade.

Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel in American history, and he

Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel in American history, and he

Slavery in North America began with the Portuguese in the seventeenth century. Increasing and spreading significantly, slavery eventually became an economic staple in the southern region of America. Although widespread and popular, rebellion against this human bondage was inevitable. Slaves in the south rebelled and revolted against their owners many times; however, these efforts were often suppressed. Although most revolts ended in failure, some did impact the feelings of slavemasters, and unfortunately, worsened their living conditions. Throughout American history, the most notable and significant slave rebellions in the south were The Stono Rebellion, The Vesey Rebellion, and The Nat Turner

The next part of the book is talking about the Haitian rebellion. The Haitian rebellion can be looked at in many ways. The Haitian people look at the Haitian rebellion as the most successful slave revolt in all of history. It was a flipping of society similar to the French revolution, and marks the seconds oldest democracy in the western hemisphere of the world.

Nat Turner’s rebellion has been considered one of the bloodiest slave revolt in Southern history, and had a huge impact on the futures of Southern generations for years after. In Nat Turner’s confessions he states “You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it--To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born. I was thirty-one years of age the 2d of October last, and born the property of Benjamin Turner, of this county.” (Turner 1831 pg.3) Nat Turner lived in South Hampton County, now in Virginia. In South Hampton County, there were many slaves. Slaves would attend praise meetings and celebrate the praise, in such a way the whites did not understand, but the whites still believed that they were harmless. Again, the whites believed that their slaves posed no threat however, nothing was as calm as it appeared. On August 22, 1831, a gang of slave rebels led by a preist, Nat Turner, attacked with guns and axes in the biggest and bloodiest slave revolt in Southern history.

Last, but certainly the most important here, is the slave revolt that played upon the fears of southerners in the most significant of ways. This slave revolt is none other than the Nat Turner Revolt, perhaps the most well known of all slave revolts among historians. Nat Turner, like most many other African Americans, was born into slavery. Turner was born the slave of Benjamin Turner, and over the course of the first twenty years of his life, he was transferred to various family members when previous owners died, a concept known as primogeniture. The concept of primogeniture can best be described as the time when property, in this case slaves, would be transferred to the next of kin when the previous master die. Turner eventually found himself in the company of Joseph Travis, whom he described as “a kind master, and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment to me.” As a child, Turner would be strongly influenced by religion, and was noted for his “uncommon intelligence” and “superior judgment.” This would play a large factor on how Turner organized his revolt as well as how he saw the predicament of African Americans slaves in southern society.

Nathaniel who also went by the alias “Nat” Turner was an African American slave who led the only effective and sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history. A mutiny was planned but rescheduled for August 21, 1831, when

My taught of the Haitian/French revolution is that was a great thing because Haitians was one of the first to gain their freedom by killing the ones that had enslaved them and led by a great leader Toussaint louver Ture that fought with the former slaves to gain their freedoms. Toussaint tried to argue to stop the slaughtering by negotiating with them but they did not agree with them so Toussaint decided to keep fighting to white until all formers slaves was created equal and that made Toussaint a great leader and during all of them years of fighting Toussaint became the official know leader that lead. In my opinion I think Toussaint is one of the greatest leader to lead a slave rebellion because his ideas were to negotiate with the whites so that they both

Nat Turner (1800 – 1831 ) was born into generational slavery but was still seemingly sheltered from the harsh realities of the world not only by his family but by his master Benjamin Turner who all argued that Nat “had too much sense to be raised in bondage” and that he “would never be of any service to anyone as a slave” (p.13). Though he later became a field slave subjected to harsh labor conditions after reaching the age of twelve and he could no longer associate freely with the white children on the plantation that he and his family lived on, in a way Nat remained a coddled slave by other slaves and his masters for the early parts of his life before reaching adulthood. Minor things like congenital bumps and scars on his body and head led other slaves and his parents to fill Nat’s head with the idea that he was a prophet (p.12) and therefore destined for great things. Also, the fact that his master, Benjamin, not only praised Nat for being intelligent and literate but actively encouraged him to read the bible and took him to gospel meetings (p.13) shows that Nat was pampered in a way that most slaves never had the luxury of every witnessing or experiencing. One thing that is undisputed, is that every person that had met Nat Turner whether slaves, free blacks or white southerners (slave owner or not) all saw him as an enigma. The mysticism surrounding Nat and the events that seemed major and minor that made the self-proclaimed prophet lead the most violent slave uprising