Nat Turner

Thousands of slaves ran away, escaping to the north. There were also numerous uprising throughout the period, such as when Nat Turner led seventy slaves in a revolt and killed fifty-seven whites. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 expanding slavery in the south, needing more slaves to pick more cotton. Slavery played an important role in the economy in the…

What would America look like today if we were all truly equal? If prejudices based off skin color wasn’t ongoing, or if police brutality didn’t exist. Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army, wrote her speech in the 70’s and it continues to apply to our modern day minorities. In To My People, Shakur criticizes the unjust actions and prejudices held against black people in their society at the time. To begin, Shakur applies the device of diction in order to…

Sanford’s favor. This upset northern including: former slaves, political figures in the north, and slaves in the south. People angered by the situation wrote articles such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Stowe. The south also had uprising like the Nat Turner Rebellion when a group of rebels killed 55 to 65 whites.(Document…

Slavery was a big part of history over the years. People in the South were just about slavery, they loved the fact they got to boss people around they did as what they were told. There were also cotton factories that held slaves and made them do the work. But, have you ever thought what it was like for the slaves and How their days went along? Starting in the 1600s, many Africans were enslaved and brought to North America. They were sold to colonists and forced to work without pay. Slavery was…

With that in mind as we explore the slave insurrections of the Nat Turner Virginia Raid 1831, Denmark Vessey revolt 1822, Malê revolt 1835, Antigua Conspiracy 1736, and Haitian Revolution 1791 we are able to see the role of African spirituality and influence of conditions. The Haitian Revolution 1791 was initially lead by Boukman Dutty a Voodoo Priest, Jean Franҫois, Cècile Fatiman Voodoo High Priestess or mamba and Georges Biassou. However the eventual leader of the revolution would be…

revolts during the 19th century was led by Nat Turner. He was an enslaved black man who led a rebellion of slaves to justify their position against slavery. He claimed that he had religious visions and was chosen by God to lead slaves freeing themselves from bondage (Gray). On August 22, 1831, Turner and his band had successfully killed at least fifty white people in Southampton County, Virginia (“American Yawp: The Cotton Revolution”). However, Turner and those slaves were later being executed.…

4.) The Civil war was a bloody war. It was one the most important wars in history. It consisted of a separation between the North and the South. It was a war over slavery and advancement. It started in 1861 and ended in 1865. The North had different generals like George McClellan, Henry Halleck, and wrapping it up with Ulysses S. Grant. The South was led by General Robert E. Lee. It was a long war, but it had to come to an end. The civil war did not rely just on people. As the book states it…

In the nineteenth century, white’s either supported the institution of slavery, or were strongly against it. Abolitionists were the people who who went against slavery and the way of life in the nineteenth century. However, apologist’s were in total support of the institution of slavery and used legal, religious and economic arguments to further their desire for slavery. African slavery began in North America in 1619, from there on slavery became a way of life, and apologist’s did not want their…

African American slavery began in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia. When the United States constitution was written, there was no specific mention of slavery but it prohibited the return of fugitives. Which allowed each slave to be counted as three fifths of a person to help determine more accurate population. The abolitionist movement started in the 1830s and ended before the civil war,. This movement was one of the most influential movements in our country 's history because of its permanent…

Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million African Americans were shipped to the New World to become slaves. 10.7 million Survived the journey from Africa and most were brought to the North American colony, Jamestown, Virginia. These African Americans were used under the power of white people as a costly and efficient way to seize more land. Although slavery was abolished and ended in 1863, African Americans still struggled for equal rights. It wasn’t until the 60’s when it began to become “equal” for…