Nat Turner

What: Black Wall Street is a documentary that chronicles the events that led to the loss of 300 plus lives and burning of a prosperous black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood, a prosperous black neighborhood was set ablaze by an angry white mob. The journey will take us from the rise of Black Wall street, heralded by entrepreneurs like O.W Gurley through the confrontation that led to the burning. Black Wall Street will also look into the efforts to rebuilding the community, the…

Incidents In The Life Of a Slave Girl This book was written by Harriet Jacobs as in autobiography of her life. She takes an audience roll in the book and names the main character Linda Brent. Harriet writes it this way so that if someone were to read it they won’t know it is her. The book was written before the civil war and since she was a slave, she was often fearful for her life. When reading this book there were several things that stood out as to why Harriet Jacobs wrote this book. When…

African American history is the story of great tragedy and accomplishment. Where they were once was kings and queens Africans were taken from their homeland as slaves to work in the dirt. They were treated cruelly and unjustly. However, they would fight ultimately for their freedom looking to having some sort of freedom whether in their homeland of Africa or this new land of America. Some call Africa the birth place of human beings seeing that The Great Rift Valley is known for having some of…

1.1.2.b. Slaves Mutiny Not only the white abolitionists and free blacks who reacted against slavery, there were other ubiquitous attempts by slaves themselves against this institution. Slaves’ revolution was divided mainly into two categories: passive and active resistance. Overall, these conducts raised both the sense of fear in the white owners and the riot pace among the African slaves. Slaves who were unable to conduct an active resistance against slavery for fear of dying or getting…

country and settle in Liberia, while some insisted that they should stay in the United States as they were born there (Jones, et al. 275). On the other hand, in 1831, people in the south reinforced slavery in any way possible. At that exact year, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, freeing slaves and killing any whites that they…

testimonies, which were accusing Denmark Vesey without any testimonies that would protect him. As a result, thirty-five slaves and free blacks were executed and the same amount was banished from South Carolina. This and similar rebellions, like Nat Turners and Gabriel’s, proved that blacks could not fight equally against whites because they were not armed and were greatly outnumbered by whites. Nevertheless, slave resistance…

During the growth of what is now the great United States of America, the integration of the African American population was one of the most crucial parts of the newly developing country. From the early stages of the thirteen colonies, all the way up until the end of the civil war in 1865, The use of African Americans as slaves could be seen as a cause for the great success of some aspects of the new country; However, there were times during this growth of a county that arguments and disputes…

Inspired by the democratic ideals of the American Revolution, African Americans worked vigorously in the decades following America’s birth to gain a similar liberation for themselves, but as new technologies expanded the southern economy. The obvious need for expansion of slavery in the South undermined the efforts of free black northerners and slaves themselves. In the South slaves were focused on obtaining their freedom by practical means such as buying their freedom or just rebelling. The…

The Revolution created the birth of America, while the Civil War would determine the kind of nation it would become. One of the most important wars in American history; fought between 1861 and 1865, The Civil war was a major event in which set the future of America. This war solved two major unanswered questions left from the Revolution regarding whether states were sovereign or individual and whether all men are created equal. The outcome of this war settled issues between the North and South,…

powerful, and a majority of slaves were native-born and family life was stronger,” it was the ultimate form of resistance (U.S.: A Narrative History, 255). However, revolt still occurred, with the most famous being the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. Turner was deeply religious and believed that God selected him to punish white people (U.S.: A Narrative History, 255). While Turner’s revolt was unsuccessful because he was captured and killed by white men after killing fifty-five people,…