Nat Turner Poem Analysis

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You control me, own me, stripped me of my freedom, beat me, skinned me all so I could wash your clothes, plow your fields cook your food when I am free I am not free as the scars remind me daily of the unjustified action to any human being was carried out by you, the white man. So why are your upset that Nat Turner and his supporters killed nearly seventy five when you the white man have killed hundreds if not thousands of men, women and children of slavery. Mentally and physically you enslaved me until 1865.

The Insurrection response was more of a character identifier something like a Shakespeare “where cometh thou.” Read like a story without a focus jumping from one opinion of the events to the other. Using the word “earthquake” and “oppression” were the most profound nouns used in the first paragraph. Led you to believe that the skies were raining blood. Earthquakes are destructive as the writer used to describe the action of Nat Turner. After an earthquake, rebuilding is a normal process necessary to repair what has been damage. Had Nat Turner become so damage
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The description of the clothes and unworn shoes led the reader to believe it was a nice summer or spring day. Night brought about a calm for some as the patrol continued for weeks looking for Nat Turner. Until even the poor whites could take no more, they had had enough and had their own escorted out of town and decided to do things their way. No stone was unturned as their main focus was to find the negros who had killed what many believed was innocent individuals. Eventually, only the slaves once again were persecuted, beaten and labeled as uneducated as the town tried to weed out those who supported the movement of Nat Turner. Not even their religion could bring unity as the slaves where forbidden to worship together until tensions

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