Nat Turner was a man after Gods heart who had a mission to lead African American out of slavery. Even though Nat died thirty years before the civil war he played an extraordinary role in fueling the abolition movements to end slavery. Nats calling was to free the African Americans from the clutches of the South through a major rebellion. He lived by Galatians 3:28 that says “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” From Nat Turners early life to his rebellion to his death he left a legacy that pushed freedom and gave hope to the slaves. Nat Turner mother was born in Africa and shipped to the United States as a slave to work on a plantation in Southampton,
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He knew this rebellion was why he was born in slavery, to lead the African Americans out of the clutches of slave owners. Turner went secretly recruiting from surrounding farms and plantations gaining African American men to join Nats rebellion to abolish slavery. On August 21, 1831 around forty African Americans gathered at the Travis plantation and began to execute their plan killing John Travis and his whole family. They then knew they were in for good now and began going on a killing spree murdering all the white slave owners they came into contact with as they marched across Southampton County, Virginia. They brutally killed every slave owner and their family in each house as they went door to door. Along with murdering the slave owning families they ransacked each house for money, supplies, and firearms. As the word was spread of the rebellion they gained more slaves totaling up to fifty or sixty African American men. The rebellion force was very large and strong as they obtained more weapons and supplies through there raid on houses. Nat Turners plan was to reach the county seat of Jerusalem and raid the armory that was placed there and continue to wreak havoc on the whites for putting African Americans in slavery under them. As they continued on towards the Armory an alert was sent out to the whites and they joined together to stop the rebellious slaves who …show more content…
Nats rebellion ignited a flame under abolitionist movements from 1831 all the way to the Civil War. Turner was a hero for the slaves and abolitionists but disrespected among the south spiking great controversy. He was who the slaves looked up to in a time of gloom, knowing they can overcome the slave owners through faith. He even came up as a hero throughout the 1960s as a popular icon for the black power movement. Nat was a recognized as a slave who took a stand on oppression from the whites. In 1967 Nat was even a part of a Pulitzer Prize won by William Styron’s novel “Confessions of Nat Turner.” Nat not only influenced people in his life time but people he never met from the
He knew this rebellion was why he was born in slavery, to lead the African Americans out of the clutches of slave owners. Turner went secretly recruiting from surrounding farms and plantations gaining African American men to join Nats rebellion to abolish slavery. On August 21, 1831 around forty African Americans gathered at the Travis plantation and began to execute their plan killing John Travis and his whole family. They then knew they were in for good now and began going on a killing spree murdering all the white slave owners they came into contact with as they marched across Southampton County, Virginia. They brutally killed every slave owner and their family in each house as they went door to door. Along with murdering the slave owning families they ransacked each house for money, supplies, and firearms. As the word was spread of the rebellion they gained more slaves totaling up to fifty or sixty African American men. The rebellion force was very large and strong as they obtained more weapons and supplies through there raid on houses. Nat Turners plan was to reach the county seat of Jerusalem and raid the armory that was placed there and continue to wreak havoc on the whites for putting African Americans in slavery under them. As they continued on towards the Armory an alert was sent out to the whites and they joined together to stop the rebellious slaves who …show more content…
Nats rebellion ignited a flame under abolitionist movements from 1831 all the way to the Civil War. Turner was a hero for the slaves and abolitionists but disrespected among the south spiking great controversy. He was who the slaves looked up to in a time of gloom, knowing they can overcome the slave owners through faith. He even came up as a hero throughout the 1960s as a popular icon for the black power movement. Nat was a recognized as a slave who took a stand on oppression from the whites. In 1967 Nat was even a part of a Pulitzer Prize won by William Styron’s novel “Confessions of Nat Turner.” Nat not only influenced people in his life time but people he never met from the