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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

Nat Turner      Early in the morning of August 22,1831, a band of black slaves, led by a lay preacher named Nat Turner, entered the Travis house in Southampton County, Virginia and killed five members of the Travis family. This was the beginning of a slave uprising that was to become known as Nat Turner’s rebellion. Over a thirty-six hour period, this band of slaves grew sixty or seventy in number and slew fifty-eight white persons in and around Jerusalem, Virginia (seventy

Nat Turner is the story of slavery and the horrors that led Turner to lead one of the bloodiest slave revolts of the time. It is told vividly through wordless images and occasional confession excerpts from Thomas R Gray’s book “Confessions of Nat Turner”. We learn and experience slavery and Turner’s tumultuous life story as he retells it in his confession to Thomas R. Gray. We learn about how Africans were hunted, shackled, branded, and transported in rat-infested ships; how they were humiliated

Nat Turner was a slave from Virginia who considered himself to be a prophet. Believing that he was chosen by God, he led a small group of 60 slave (he met through the church) in 1831 to carry out a violent rebellion that lasted for 24 hours. They were responsible for the killing of white families to include men, women and children. His actions spread fear across the south until his hanging approximately two months after the revolt. While there were sympathy for the white families that were killed

With this newly acquired knowledge, he began preaching the Old Testament to the other slaves, about what freedom meant and how they should fight for it. He mainly preached to a group of five other slaves, with the addition of two more later on about the concept of freedom. Nat felt as if he was driven into some corner of slavery from which there was no return, only his imagination was he free

childhood by those by whom I had been taught to pray, both white and black, and in whom I had the greatest confidence, that I had too much sense to be raised, and if I was, I would never be of any use to any one as a slave. Now finding I had arrived to man’s estate, and was a slave, and these revelations being made known to me, I began to direct my attention to this great object, to fulfil the purpose for which, by this time, I felt assured I was intended.” i was hanged on November 11 in Virginia

plantation. At the Prosser plantation, there were about 53 slaves. Gabriel was a blacksmith at the plantation. He was about 6 feet tall. Gabriel could read and write. During this time only 5 percent of the slaves in the south could read and write. Gabriel's plan was to enlist his brother and another servant in the French and Saint-Domingue revolutions of 1789. This was a fight for freedom for slaves. The word spread quickly to other slaves in the Richmond area. To some extent, this was good that other

The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates describes a sad and tragic story about a man named Nat Turner who was born into slavery and his fight to be free. Ironically, his willingness to do anything, even kill, to gain his freedom leads to his own demise. From the title of this book, 'The Fires of Jubilee, '; a reader can truly grasp the concept that there is trouble, chaos, and mayhem brewing in the month of August. This story was not only riveting, but

the reading of “The Confessions of Nat Turner” written by William Styron. This book pivots around the life of Nat Turner, a slave who got arrested for the slave rebellion that he had created. Confessing to the wrongs that Nat has committed, the author uses the first person point of view perspective to gradually steer the reader to the events that led to the Slave Rebellion of 1831. “The Confessions of Nat Turner” recapitulates “The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in