Slavery - Slave Resistance

For over 2,000 years, slavery has been conducted in various parts of the world. From year 1500 to year 1900, Europeans stole individuals from West Africa, West Central Africa, and Southeast Africa and shipped them to the different parts of the Atlantic. This process dehumanized them of their identity. Europeans stole husbands, wives, merchants, blacksmiths, farmers, and even children. They removed them from their homelands and gave them new names: slaves. European slaveholders never thought to take ownership of their actions by killing humans with brutality and degradation. Slave trade was considered popular in England and soon after more countries began the process of taking slaves to newly claimed territories. These countries include

He was able to prevent the entire plot from being divulged by one slave, because only the leaders had complete knowledge of the extent of resistance. Therefore, if a slave betrayed the plot, they would only be informing on their group. The scheme was that a fire would be started by a group of rebels. Outside the homes of whites, different groups of insurrectionists would be waiting for the men to come out the door and would then proceed to kill them. Many of the slaves in the plantations surrounding Charleston had joined the revolt, and the numbers kept growing. Although, they were betrayed almost from the beginning, the cell system stopped slave owners from discovering the magnitude of the resistance. Ironically, the night before the attack, officials were informed of the entire plot by a house servant. They then made preparations to thwart the attempt, and the entire operation was terminated. Denmark Vesey was tried and convicted along with 67 others. Thirty-five of his followers, including Denmark Vesey were then executed. His conspiracy frightened Southerners, because the thoroughness and cunning of it were a stunning blow to them. On October 2, 1800, a "prophet" was born. Nat Turner was the only rebel who’s fight against slave owners was successful. He was brought up despising slavery. In fact, his mother attempted to kill him when he was a baby in order to save him from the life of a slave. Nat Turner was another greatly devout

Enslaved African Americans resisted slavery in a variety of active and passive ways. "Day-to-day resistance" was the most common form of opposition to slavery. Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage--all were forms of resistance and expression of slaves' alienation from their masters.

Slave resistance began for many enslaved Africans before they reach the Americas. Karenga explained the many arrangements in which Africans resisted to enslavement, while in Africa, during the middle passage, and in the Americas. Employing the Karenga text one can evaluate the different resistances that transpired in Antigua as Cultural, Resistance, Day-to-Day Resistance, Abolitionism, Armed Resistance, Revolts, Ship Mutinies, and Afro-Native Alliance. One can conclude that enslaved Africans had an unrelenting resistance to enslavement (Karenga).

Nat Turner’s Rebellion was one of the few slave revolts that took place during the early 1800s. Countless attempts at freedom by slaves were not successful due to a lack of precision and planning that Nat Turner’s Rebellion possessed. Turner spent years gathering information and planning the specific details of the revolt he led. Turner researched the various people he targeted and focused on during the events in the rebellion. Nat Turner’s Rebellion influenced the abolition of slavery and the ways individuals are dealt with present-day human trafficking. The rebellion shows the tactics Turner used when he created an effective and life changing rebellion. The revolt and uprising of slaves during the time period was uncommon, since slave owners had not treated slaves in a harsh manner. The ways in which Nat Turner worked to combat against slavery were evident through his childhood, where he spent hours each day reading and analyzing the bible. He spent several years planning the different aspects of the rebellion, doing his best to minimize the possibility of exposing slaveowners to the plan for the rebellion. The events following the rebellion led to massive changes to the institution of slavery.

Throughout American history slave has resist their master, the system and the idea of slavery. These resistance has became of a key stone in the history of slavery. To understand what these resistance is, we will look at incident of the past to analyze how slave in the past resisted their master, the system and the idea of slavery.

In this assignment I will be taking a further look into the history of slavery. When thinking of slavery the immediate thought that comes to mind is all the negative aspects of the system. Prior to this research, I was unaware of slave systems that were not based on the long labor hours and the torture of slaves. Granted, there were still forms of slavery that practiced these brutal rituals, where slaves were treated as animals and were malnourished. One prime example of this, is the book titled “Am I Not A Woman And A Sister”, looks at the history of a Bermudan slave named Mary Prince. Another example of slavery that will be incorporated in this paper will come from a source about a woman slave named Semsigul, born in Caucasus an area that

In August of 1831 Nat Turner, a slave, began on uprising of slaves and citizens that spread through several towns in the southern part of Virginia. Nat Turner rounded up approximately seventy men that killed around sixty white people. Two days later, the militia, infantry and artillery of the United States deployed suppressing the Rebellion. Fifty-five slaves along with Turner included were tried in court and executed for the Rebellion. Although small-scale uprisings by the slaves were common in the southern part of America, Nat Turner's Rebellion was by far the bloodiest. The lawmakers and Congressmen of Virginia rolled back the few civil rights the slaves and free black possessed at that time. Ultimately, education was prohibited and the right to assemble was limited severely due to the rebellion, which wasn't fair to all blacks. Nat Turner’s Rebellion stirred up the US and was one of the last events that triggered the Civil

They originally planned to attack on July 4th but when Turner became sick they had to postpone. On August 13th an atmospheric disturbance occurred that made the sun seem to be a bluish-green. Turner believed that this was the last straw and that God wanted him to attack soon. This insurrection will make Nat Turner the leader of a rebellion that was the bloodiest and most effective in American history. (Larson)

One of the rebellion would be the Nat Turner Rebellion which was one of the rebellion. On August 22, 1831 a group of slaves conjured up in Southampton County, Virginia for a bloody outlash on whites. Nat Turner who was a preacher felt as if it was God’s will and showed him a sign, and went from plantation to plantation gathering blacks and killing around

Slavery in the United States was an atrocity committed against black Africans or African Americans. There were many forms of resistance to the slave trade and to slavery from black and white people alike.

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

About a quarter of the Methodist and Baptist churches were formed by blacks by the 1790s and slave owners dreaded that Christianity could result in insubordinate slaves. As a matter of fact, of the three major uprisings by slaves, converted slaves played key parts. Leaders of Gabriel’s Rebellion used the biblical story of the Israelites to show slaves that even against overpowering statistics they could triumph. After reading the Bible, Denmark Vessy accumulated black followers of which most belonged to Charleston’s African Methodist Church to seize Charlston. Nat Turner’s Rebellion, led by Nat Turner, occurred because Turner preached to his followers that he was a prophet for God. Nevertheless, these rebellions actually motivated Protestant missionaries to convert more slaves by saying a Christian slave is better than a bitter slave. As a outcome, the amount of black Baptists doubled between 1845 and 1860.

In Southampton, Virginia, Nat Turner lead a rebellion on the Belmont plantation. Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion August 1831. Slaves were massacred 55 to 65 white militias. The fouled rebellion would lead to Nat Turner being tried and hung for revolting against the whites. The rebellion began when Turner’s small band of hatchet-wielding slaves killed his master, Joseph Travis, along with his wife, nine-year-old son and a hired hand as they slept in their beds.

For this assignment, I have decided to write about slave ships. There is an extreme amount of sadness and cruelty that surrounds the slave trade. I am very passionate about this subject because I don’t think that slaves are given the proper recognition that they deserve. I don’t think people think about what it was like to actually be on one of these slave ships. I think it is important to keep the history of the slave trade alive since we will never fully know what life was really like on a slave ship and to honor those who died on the voyage and those who died once reaching their destination.