I learned that many slaves would escape to the north and live there for many years but then be captured and sent back to the south to become slaves again. This would also happen to people who had not been slaves their whole life. I also learned that cotton was the most profitable plant in America and that it caused many slave owners to become extremely wealthy allowing the slave market to thrive. The Nat Turner rebellion is new to me and is an interesting point where the roles were reversed for a day with the slaves harming the white slave owners. This revolt also helped to get more slaves to have more hope that one day they could be free. The Fugitive slave law tried to put down revolts like this by saying that the slaves had no right to be
