In the early 1800s, open rebellions—when slaves armed themselves and rose up against their white oppressors—happened, but they were rare. In 1800, a slave named Gabriel Prosser made plans to revolt in Henrico County, Virginia. Freeman Denmark Vesey led a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was the biggest and bloodiest slave uprising in American history. It was also the most influential because the immediate forces it set in motion. The rebellion caused decreased freedom for slaves and increased agitation of abolitionists, which ultimately led to African Americans today having social equality, but economic and educational inequality. Nat Turner, born October 2, 1800 in Southampton County, was born the
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He came back delirious and hungry, and with a new vision from God of “white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle….and heard a voice saying ‘Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.’” His fellow slaves were amazed at his return, murmuring behind his back that “they would not serve any master in the world” if they were as clever as him and escaped. Turner is said to have heard a message from God saying, “There is to be a bloody struggle to make black men and women free; you and your comrades are chosen to undertake it”. Turner waited for a sign from God to give permission to lead his revolt. On February 12, 1831, a partial solar eclipse gave him the sign he was looking for. He gathered his associates and told them his …show more content…
After the war, the Reconstruction Amendments abolished slavery, gave blacks the rights of citizenship and the right to vote. Legally slaves were free, with the same legal rights as white people.
Nat Turner’s rebellion – and the laws established as a result of it had far-reaching consequences. Prohibiting reading and writing, created a massive population of illiterate newly-freed slaves. Prohibiting property ownership blocked blacks from one of the most important means of establishing wealth.
During the Reconstruction period, “a sociopolitical attempt to resolve the secessionist South with defeat in the Civil War”, blacks were prevented from moving past slavery, due to lack of literacy and land. Since blacks were unable to read, they were unable to function in modern society. They were not allowed in schools and there were very few willing to teach them. They were unable to function because they couldn’t do basic tasks, like running businesses. They also lost functionality in society because they had no land. Their lack of literacy prevented them from doing city jobs, and their lack of land prevented them from making a living on farming. This lead to large amounts of blacks forced into the share cropping lifestyle to
He came back delirious and hungry, and with a new vision from God of “white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle….and heard a voice saying ‘Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.’” His fellow slaves were amazed at his return, murmuring behind his back that “they would not serve any master in the world” if they were as clever as him and escaped. Turner is said to have heard a message from God saying, “There is to be a bloody struggle to make black men and women free; you and your comrades are chosen to undertake it”. Turner waited for a sign from God to give permission to lead his revolt. On February 12, 1831, a partial solar eclipse gave him the sign he was looking for. He gathered his associates and told them his …show more content…
After the war, the Reconstruction Amendments abolished slavery, gave blacks the rights of citizenship and the right to vote. Legally slaves were free, with the same legal rights as white people.
Nat Turner’s rebellion – and the laws established as a result of it had far-reaching consequences. Prohibiting reading and writing, created a massive population of illiterate newly-freed slaves. Prohibiting property ownership blocked blacks from one of the most important means of establishing wealth.
During the Reconstruction period, “a sociopolitical attempt to resolve the secessionist South with defeat in the Civil War”, blacks were prevented from moving past slavery, due to lack of literacy and land. Since blacks were unable to read, they were unable to function in modern society. They were not allowed in schools and there were very few willing to teach them. They were unable to function because they couldn’t do basic tasks, like running businesses. They also lost functionality in society because they had no land. Their lack of literacy prevented them from doing city jobs, and their lack of land prevented them from making a living on farming. This lead to large amounts of blacks forced into the share cropping lifestyle to