The Background And Causes Of Anebellum And The Antebellum

The story of Nat Turner’s rebellion, that took place in Southampton, Virginia, on August 22, 1831, is somewhat of a lost event. This is because this particular stand was not the most successful at first, but it resulted in the later years as an rewarding rebellion. Nat Turner’s rebellion affected racism and slavery, by being a leader, by being influential, and by showing bravery. All three of these things must be used in order to have a successful rebellion in this situation especially.

Nat Turner rebellion took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Turner’s intention was to move through the countryside, household to household, killing as many whites as possible. He did not care whether they were a man or women, child or adult. Turner was quoted as saying that “indiscriminate slaughter was not their intention after they obtained a foothold, and was resorted to in the first instance to strike terror and alarm. Women and children would afterwards have been spared, and men too who ceased to resist.”

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.

  Nat Turner did not like the way his people were being treated. Mistreatments on the black slaves pushed Nat and his followers to start the rebellion. In the movie “Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property “directed by Charles Burnett, “slavery was an institution that degraded people”. Blacks had no power whatsoever and had to

The Antebellum Era is defined as the time before the the Civil War. Many important things happened in America during this time period. Including the rise of abolitionist as well as people who supported slavery. In the North the economy started booming and also in the South cotton became huge. Many things happened during this period that helped shape our nation to what it is today. During the Antebellum period a movement was started because of religious reasons mostly This movement was called the Temperance Movement.

The Antebellum Period was the time after the War of 1812 and just before the Civil War (Lapsansky-Werner). With the growing cotton plantation in the south, more slaves were needed and more slaves needed to escape ("Antebellum Period."). While the Antebellum Period brought the Second Great Awakening and Westward Expansion, it is also known for the uprising of abolition and anti versus pro slavery arguments ("Antebellum Period."). The antebellum period was overall a pivotal point in slavery and slave laws with laws like the fugitive slave act of 1851 and the Compromise of 1850 or rebellions like the Underground Railroad. Fredrick Douglass was also very influential in this time because he is a true example of a black abolitionist and his speech changed lives. Another important event in the Antebellum Period was the Abolitionist movement.

Nat Turner led the bloodiest slave mutiny in the American history between 1800-1831 in South Hampton County, Virginia. He confessed to having traveled from one plantation to another slaughtering 55 white people while gaining new slave recruits. The fully alerted whites from South Hampton and the neighboring counties created an armed response, and later Nat Turner was arrested when hiding in the woods. He was convicted of murder and insurrection and executed by hanging in Jerusalem, Virginia (Gray 90).

While African Americans of the antebellum period formed a greater connection with white Jesus, African americans after the Civil War were confused by the whiteness of Jesus and began to question it. During antebellum period, African American did not focused on Jesus being white because they their ultimate concern was slavery. They needed a form of hope and someone they can connect to, so wether it was in form of white or black light, it did not matter. In one way, they viewed him as a hero and hoped that he will set them free from bondage. In other way, they located him within slave community and made him a friend, who will stay with them during this hard time.During the age of Imperialism, African American focused on skin tone of Jesus because

The Antebellum period, meaning “pre-war” in Latin, is defined in American History as the period before the Civil War and after the War of 1812. It was marked by the rise of abolition and the steady polarization of the nation between the viewpoints of pro and anti-slavery and the people behind them. The two sides bitterly argued for their cause. Advocates of slavery included religion, economics, morals, politics, and even the Constitution to further their arguments; likewise, abolitionists used similar counterarguments and these sweeping movements fueled by persuasion became increasingly fierce and forever transformed the nation.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is an amazing novel about slavery and the cruelty of it. A success in America and Europe. This made Harriet Tubman a famous piece in the anti-slavery act. Many even say this book put fuel into the civil war. One of the most deadliest war in American History. Harriet Stowe's life is interesting and her book is one of her most greatest accomplishment.

     Published in the early 1850’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a huge impact on our nation and contributed to the tension over slavery. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a woman who was involved in religious and feminist causes. Stowe’s influence on the northern states was remarkable. Her fictional novel about slave life of her current time has been thought to be one of the main things that led up to the Civil War. The purpose of writing it, as is often said, was to expose the evils of slavery to the North where many were unaware of just what went on in the rest of the country. The book was remarkably successful and sold 300,000 copies by the end of its first year. It is even rumored that

The slave rebellion was an important event that helped ignite the start of abolishing slavery. Around the year of 1831 Nat Turner led a significant rebellion that mark the pursuit to freedom in America. Nat Turner is a former slave who was born in 1800. His plan was to “overthrow the slave regime” because he was fed up and felt that he wanted his own freedom instead of being degraded as a slave (Mason). What spark Turner’s idea about creating a rebellion was from a story he heard as a little boy about a man having a legendary rebellion. The man who he claims to have gotten the idea from was a former blacksmith under the name Gabriel Prosser. The man “who had plotted an uprising in nearby Richmond” (Mason). Before the rebellion could have been initiated, Nat Turner compromised a group of Africans in 1831 at Southern Virginia to help fight for their independence under their master’s (Slave owners) control. At the age of thirty-one, Nat Turner led the rebellion which became a massacre and being known as “Nat Turners Revolt.” His actions for the rebellion “was seen as the first major armed conflict in the long struggle to end slavery” (Mason 204). With his actions that Turner did, it soon became widely notice around America and spark a change of mind of what slavery was to become or happen. Slave owners are now at risk of losing their slaves, but the slaves are at now at the point of achieving their independence.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in the United States in 1852. The novel depicted slavery as a moral evil and was the cause of much controversy at the time and long after. Uncle Tom's Cabin outraged the South and received praise in the North. The publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a major turning point for the United States which helped bring about the Civil War.

Hi Ryan, I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on abolitionist literature. I completely agree with your historical analysis of the Antebellum period and how it relates to both Fredrick Douglass and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow works. However, you could go on to say that Fredrick Douglass's works were not only an autobiography but a way in which to inspire other slaves to seek freedom and to stir the ideas of abolition from the African American perspective. We can devise this inference from the vivid imagery written by Douglass about the atrocities that befell many those African Americans in that time. This would, in turn, create an uproar for justice-seeking abolitionist along with gathering those who did not see slave as humans. "Every man

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which originally was published on March 20, 1852. Under the background that the country had been divided over the issue over slavery, the south states of the country are slaves states, and the north states of the country are slave free states. Different sides of the country have distinct views over slavery system in south. The north, specially abolitionist, views slavery system is villainous and immoral, it takes away the basic right of human which is freedom, and it againsts God which is Christian believes. The theme of the novel based on the abolitionist views. The purpose of the novel is that tell the world what is slave life like, especially for those northerners never been to the south.Their life will be strenuous or comfortable is depend on what kind of slave owner they meet. The book is appeal people to face and deal with the issue of slavery which lasted in the history for a long time.