Turner’s Analysis
Stephen B. Oates “The Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion” is a book about the slave rebellion that took place in 1831 at Virginia Southampton. This book is an historical narrative in reference to Nathaniel Turner, an educated black slave who organized other slaves into a very bloody battle against their masters. Nat was born into slavery and believed he should be freed because he knew how to read and write. He was willing to do anything to be freed, even kill to have his freedom that he strongly desired. In the month of August, it was a very troubled and chaotic month amongst the slaves and their masters that this was unlikely to be seen coming their way.
Oates book was taken place before the civil war and it described a very fine young boy named Nat Turner. The book tells of Nat’s life from his young childhood and throughout his early adult years. Nat was born into slavery …show more content…
He developed a way for “The Fires of Jubilee” to get people attention and grow sentiments on how the slaves in the past were treated and why they did what they believed they had to do. I have an understanding and put myself into the footsteps of Nathaniel Turner and the former slaves. The empathy that took place in me was hard for me to uphold. From his father leaving him and his mom, then he had to start working, combined with his intelligence did not mean anything to his slave owner, and to feeling of God is showing him a way to get out of the situation that Nat didn’t felt like he should be in. Even though it had to take a severely bloody warfare, the death of Nat, slaves, and whites to get the attention to make the slaves free. William Lloyd Garrison published in the Liberator a parody called, “INCENDIARY SLAVEHOLDERS” and got that the awareness that was needed. It might have taken several years but in the end even with many deaths the slaves were finally free. Nat Turner made an achievement even in his
Stephen B. Oates “The Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion” is a book about the slave rebellion that took place in 1831 at Virginia Southampton. This book is an historical narrative in reference to Nathaniel Turner, an educated black slave who organized other slaves into a very bloody battle against their masters. Nat was born into slavery and believed he should be freed because he knew how to read and write. He was willing to do anything to be freed, even kill to have his freedom that he strongly desired. In the month of August, it was a very troubled and chaotic month amongst the slaves and their masters that this was unlikely to be seen coming their way.
Oates book was taken place before the civil war and it described a very fine young boy named Nat Turner. The book tells of Nat’s life from his young childhood and throughout his early adult years. Nat was born into slavery …show more content…
He developed a way for “The Fires of Jubilee” to get people attention and grow sentiments on how the slaves in the past were treated and why they did what they believed they had to do. I have an understanding and put myself into the footsteps of Nathaniel Turner and the former slaves. The empathy that took place in me was hard for me to uphold. From his father leaving him and his mom, then he had to start working, combined with his intelligence did not mean anything to his slave owner, and to feeling of God is showing him a way to get out of the situation that Nat didn’t felt like he should be in. Even though it had to take a severely bloody warfare, the death of Nat, slaves, and whites to get the attention to make the slaves free. William Lloyd Garrison published in the Liberator a parody called, “INCENDIARY SLAVEHOLDERS” and got that the awareness that was needed. It might have taken several years but in the end even with many deaths the slaves were finally free. Nat Turner made an achievement even in his