Nat Turner

Famous Slaves The word “famous”means having a widespread reputation. People see it as a good thing and people want it. The word “slaves” bring a horrid history and today’s actions to mind. “Famous slaves”, that is an entirely different story. These people are famous not because they wanted to, but because of the courageous acts they did during their lives. Civil Right Activist Dred Scott’s actions foreshadowed the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1856 speech of Abraham Lincoln in which Dred was…

Virginia in 1831, led by Nat Turner. Turner was born in 1800, during the peak of slavery in Southampton, Virginia. From a very young age he had hostile feelings towards the whole institution of slavery. He felt an overwhelming sense of injustice, and refused to accept that this was the way his life would be. After receiving what he believed visions from God, he knew it was time to act. He gained a group of supporters, and set into motion a passionate and bloody rebellion. Turner was not just…

Reflective Writing Assignment Through online broadcasts and riveting reading assignments, this class has broadened my knowledge about the Black Power Movement and the Civil Rights Era. Initially, I enrolled in this class to complete my tier 2 credits but in addition to that I was very intrigued by African American Literature. This was my first time taking an Africana studies course. I took this course in hope of learning about a subject I know very a little about. This class has successfully…

Nat Turner was a black man born in Virginia on a plantation owned by Benjamin Turner where he was instructed on how to read and write and taught religion. He was sold three times and eventually hired out to John Travis where he became a fiery preacher, claiming he was chosen by God to free his people. During an eclipse in 1831, Nat Turner believed he had received a sign from God that he should kill the slave owners with their own weapons. He enlisted the help of four other slaves and together on…

textbook. It is a piece titled “Horrid Massacre in Virginia,” referring to the events that occurred in Nat Turner Rebellion. Although the specific artist of the work is unknown, this illustration was presented in a book by Samuel Warner, titled, “Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County.” This book was written in 1831, which is the same year of Nat Turner's Rebellion. The rebellion occurred on August 22nd, 1831. The image itself depicts a…

Many African Americans and white American abolitionists used poems, books, and pamphlets to spread the word about the need to end slavery. Phillis Wheatley’s poem On Being Brought from Africa to America and Thomas Gray’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner both show how two African Americans, influenced by religion, attempted to draw attention to the injustices of slavery, Wheatley’s poem uses an indirect and more diplomatic approach.…

Things changed once a man by the name of Nat Turner arrived on the scene, Nat Turner “was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people”. Nat Turner rebellion wasn't such a good thing, Slaves that joined Nat Turner's rebellion was often executed and more than 200 others were beaten by white angry mobs and supremacists. Nat Turner wasn't a nonviolent person, In…

young man, Nat had heard voices, pushing him to become a priest and o set his people free. At 25 years old, he escaped from his master's farm, but about a month after, he returned back to his master and said “The Holy Spirit” is the reason for his return. Although Joseph Travis, a farmer, was a kind person, him and his family were Nats first victim. They caught him next to Travis’ farm. He claimed that his mind was restless and observant, and wa devoted to fasting and praying. Turner…

The book, “The Fires of Jubilee” is an outstanding take on slavery in Virginia, told mostly through slave, Nat Turners point-of-view on how the events of his fierce revolution had occurred. The Author, Stephen B. Oates, is a history professor who went out to do research on Nat Turner and used documents and witness accounts to put together the book with the most liable accounts of Nat’s rebellion. Today I’ll be discussing my confusion of the book, how the events were horrific, what I think of…

Confusion and chaos took over the entire south as questions about why Nat ad rebelled came up. Why did he commit violence in an area where the master-slave relations were much better than many other southern counties (101)? The largest concern was if a rebellion as violent and as fierce in a mellow place like Virginia, what would happen in the “deep” south (105)? Rumors of slave plots spread to the border of Virginia and North Carolina and people were in a state of disarray. Any slave…