1) The actions of Denmark Vesey, Nate Turner, David Walker, and the incidents involving the Amistad and the Creole had equally important effects on how whites and blacks viewed each other.
1a) Denmark Vesey: A freeman who bought his freedom from a lottery drawing, he was a preacher who dreamed of freeing himself and his slave brothers to resettle on Haiti (after seeing the successful slave revolt that resulted on the island). Over the course of a year he gathered enslaved friends for a plot to take over a weapons shop to arm the group. However, when word of the revolt was leaked, officials tried and executed the ringleaders of the plot. Since most of Vesey’s men were educated, South Carolina authorities placed restrictions on black education. As I explore the other 2 individuals, it is very clear that authorities try to respond to black uprisings by limiting freedoms that could have allowed such an event to happen (or so they thought).
1b) Nat Turner: Turner, influenced by the Second Great Awakening, led him to the idea that a godly day of judgment was ahead. With an initially small group of slaves, Turner and his men went from planation to planation killing slave owners and their families. Accumulating more weapons and slaves along the way aided in their mission of …show more content…
He was a heavy critic of the ACS movement to relocate free blacks to the African continent, and inspired him to publish a manifesto called Walkers Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World. His pro-abolitionist stance and calls for violence among slaves scared Southern slaveholders. The pamphlets were secretly distributed deep into the South, and rewards for Walkers capture or murder surfaced. While Walker supposedly died of natural causes, the effectiveness and far-reach of his informational campaign showed the strength abolitionist had in the
1a) Denmark Vesey: A freeman who bought his freedom from a lottery drawing, he was a preacher who dreamed of freeing himself and his slave brothers to resettle on Haiti (after seeing the successful slave revolt that resulted on the island). Over the course of a year he gathered enslaved friends for a plot to take over a weapons shop to arm the group. However, when word of the revolt was leaked, officials tried and executed the ringleaders of the plot. Since most of Vesey’s men were educated, South Carolina authorities placed restrictions on black education. As I explore the other 2 individuals, it is very clear that authorities try to respond to black uprisings by limiting freedoms that could have allowed such an event to happen (or so they thought).
1b) Nat Turner: Turner, influenced by the Second Great Awakening, led him to the idea that a godly day of judgment was ahead. With an initially small group of slaves, Turner and his men went from planation to planation killing slave owners and their families. Accumulating more weapons and slaves along the way aided in their mission of …show more content…
He was a heavy critic of the ACS movement to relocate free blacks to the African continent, and inspired him to publish a manifesto called Walkers Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World. His pro-abolitionist stance and calls for violence among slaves scared Southern slaveholders. The pamphlets were secretly distributed deep into the South, and rewards for Walkers capture or murder surfaced. While Walker supposedly died of natural causes, the effectiveness and far-reach of his informational campaign showed the strength abolitionist had in the