Urwango Rebellion

Malik Urwango had recently been bought for a whopping 950 dollars from a slave master and sold to a rich white Colonel whose name he knew not. This was Urwango 's third time being bought because he was a strong, smart man and many slave masters wanted his talents. Urwango life could be summarized as being held and worked against his will and for nothing, he had lost his spouses, parents, and children to the traffic in slavery. When Urwango first arrived to the plantation, he was immediately forced into hard crop-picking labor. The crops that were picked consisted of tobacco, corn, and wheat. Urwango, at age nineteen, noticed that he was not the youngest slave picking crops, rather there were crop-picking slaves who were a mere ten years old. Urwango would work fourteen hours during the summer and ten hours in the field doing agricultural …show more content…
This incensed Urwango and Urwango felt as if it was time for a rebellion. Urwango began looking for a slave who had the ability to lead a rebellion because sadly, he lacked the oral strength to lead a rebellion. Urwango began to take notice of a particular slave named Nat Turner. Turner had recently came to the plantation so Urwango wanted to see if Turner was the man for the job. When talking to Turner, he would explain how he was intended for a greater purpose and how he was able to trace God 's text in the natural world throughout his life. Urwango had found his guy. Urwango began to explain to Turner how badly they were treated on the plantation and how Turner could be the perfect man to lead the rebellion against the slave masters. Turner was iffy on rather to partake and lead the rebellion, but when Urwango told him of how deceitful the Colonel was. The Colonel was deceitful because his life was devoted to planning and perpetrating the grossest deceptions and every thing he possessed in the shape of learning or religion, he made conform to his disposition to deceive, even thinking of himself equal to deceiving the