Stereotypes Portrayed In Nat Turner's Rebellion

First of all, both Frederick Douglass and Nat Turner has a lot of similarities. Both were well-educated slaves, and education helped them to be different from other slaves. In fact, while learning to read and write, Douglass understood his real life of being a slave because he could develop his imagination and interpret what was happening around him. For example, at the end of the chapter two of his book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself”, Douglass mentioned the slave song that he sang with other slaves when they were going to the Great House Farm which is the Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. When Douglass was a slave, he could not understand the real meaning of the song; however, when he grew up

Nat Turner was a leader from the very moment he was born. But unfortunately he was also born into slavery. He was hit with the regulatory slave rules, he could not get married, travel without the permission of his master, could not own property, and he could not earn money. During his slavery, he was sold to many different slave owners and each time, he was sold, he was forced to leave some part of his family, as well as his friends he had made. This was the brutal and demeaning system of slavery that he sought to overthrow. He was not just looking for his own individual freedom, he was fighting for the abolishment of the whole entire system of slavery, along with liberating African Americans from white tyranny. During the 1820s he had many visions of what he believed to be God commanding him to prepare himself to fight against great evil. He was not the only one that was “receiving visions from God” there were many other Americans that said to experience

Nat Turner’s rebellion was one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States. Nat turner was born into slavery in the year of 1800 in Southampton, Virginia. People on the plantation believed he was a prophet and chosen by God to lead them to great things. He knew of stories that were told before he was alive and his grandmother and mother knew then that he was special and sent from God.

During their 'March of Destruction,'; things began to get out of hand. Though he was willing to go to extreme measures to gain his freedom, the events that ended up taking place ended up becoming a massacre. Due to Nat's rebellion, 60 whites and 200 blacks died. Though Nat did in fact partake in the killings, the author makes it out to seem as if in the end, Nat did not really want this to become a bloodbath. Although he thought that it was getting out of hand, he stood idly by, watching the massacre take place. In the end, a total of 50 stood trial, and 21, including Nat Turner were hung for the rebellion.

     Nat became very distant form the other slaves; it was like he was in another world. He fasted religiously and became well aquatinted with the spirits, and also claimed that they showed him visions in the sky. Nat began to read the Bible in depth and discovered the mockery that the whites made of it, while in reality the Bible was against human bondage. Nat had more visions as time went by such as the drops of blood on the corn. He finally got his vision after his sign from the eclipse. Eager and ready, Nat gathered a group of trusted fellow slaves and began to plot his insurrection.

Nat Turner was born in October 2, 1800, on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. His father was also a slave of Benjamin Turner’s and was believed to have successfully escaped and lived his life in the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia and North Carolina. His mother was a slave named Nancy who used to live in Africa but was taken in 1763. Nat Turner was highly intelligent and imaginative even from early childhood, and his mother thought that he was destined for great things. He was overheard describing events that even happened before he was born, so the other slaves believed that he was destined to become a religious prophet. Nat Turner was a very religious slave who had many visions and led a rebellion

Slave Revolts, particularly in the South, may be deemed unsuccessful by whites. Although, in the African American community, if one event attempted to plan a revolt it was for our freedom and the freedom of others for generations to come. Despite the fact that Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner died while plotting or carrying out a revolt, their death was not in vain. Their deaths sparked a wave of revolts throughout the South. The stories of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner display how religion influenced their acts of rebellion.

Nat Turner’s rebellion left a large scar across Southampton, not only physically in the land, but in the minds of both the citizens and the rest of the country as debates about the abolition of slavery started to really heat up. Confusion and chaos took over the entire south as questions about why Nat ad rebelled came up. Why did he commit violence in an area where the master-slave relations were much better than many other southern counties (101)? The largest concern was if a rebellion as violent and as fierce in a mellow place like Virginia, what would happen in the “deep” south (105)? Rumors of slave plots spread to the border of Virginia and North Carolina and people were in a state of disarray. Any slave suspicious of participating in, or starting a rebellion would be killed

So it was a rude awakening for Nat, just as it was for many other slave children who passed through that traumatic time: the first anguished recognition that I am a slave. For Nat it was an especially painful time, for he had been

"Nat Turner's Southampton Slave Revolt and How it Paved the Way for the Abolitionist and

Nat Turner was the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. Nat Turner believed that he was the chosen one by God to lead slaves from bondage. As a young child he described things that happened before his time. Most of his time was spent praying and fasting and reading the Bible. He was believed to be a prophet. He then led a violent insurrection. Hiding out for six weeks and later caught to be hung and skinned. This movement ended the emancipation movement in that region and led to harsher laws against slaves.

By this time people of Virginia believed he had escaped. But when Nat made himself seen at someone he thought he could trust they knew he was in the area. Nat was caught in a hole made by a fallen tree, he was fixing his cover when he looked up and was caught by Benjamin Phipps. Nat while in jail learned of the fates of his ‘Lieutenants’. All were tried and hanged, this too would be the fate of Nat Turner. Nat was also flayed, beheaded and quartered to serve as an example to would be black rebels.

Nat Turner was an African American slave who was born in Southampton County, Virginia on October 2, 1800. He started working on southern plantations 1831. When he was younger, everyone thought of him as being very smart. They saw that he was smart when he was about 3 or 4 years old. While young Nat Turner was playing with some of his friends, his mother heard him tell the children about something that had happened to him when he was born. She later had asked him about what he told the children. She asked him details about the incident, and it confirmed that he knew about this past event. From that time on, other slaves believed that in addition to his unique view, his physical markings were a sign that he would be a prophet.

Additionally, there was a lot of work and planning in these individual revolts, however, the level of sophistication was varied between these great leaders. For instance, Nat Turner used the ever resourceful neighborhoods (African American communities) which were a web of network that functions independently between each other towns. Turner was able to move freely within this network to spread the plan of revolt, the neighborhood were not all supportive of his plan in fear of being killed. In regards to Gabriels' plan, he had an insider informing the layout of the targeted structure that was supposed to set ablazed as they were going to seize the weaponry belong to the malitia. However, Gabriel's plan was leaked as the governor

After reviewing the documentary and readings, the lasting impression i have of nat turner and the revolt is amanzed by how they use spirtually motivaed resistance. Nat Turner believed God sent him a sign to rebel against people who were oppressing Africans no matter what age or gender. He refused to go another day being treated like a slave by first killing his owner then on to the next White slave owner until he was lynched. Even though, I feel Nat turner used God's words in order to convience other slaves to kill slave owners. If Nat Turner was so godly he would have followed God's commanents and not killed anyone, But on the other hand many things would not have been accomplished with out