Both shared an African American religious vision[.]” He goes on to mention, “[T]he scared dimension so central to the Nat Turner revolt appeared in any other slave rebellions.” He then cites the 1822 rebellion of Denmark Vesey, a relatively well-to-do free black man, who “gathered large numbers of recruits from the African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston,” and used biblical rhetoric and doctrine to do so. Black churches were seedbed of resistance and white authorities in Charleston had arrested black christian leaders, because they educated slaves. Notably, following Nat’s rebellion, “Virginia passed laws prohibiting all blacks, both slave and free, from preaching or conducting religious meetings.”…