Nat Turner's slave rebellion

emancipation of slaves and started his own newspaper, the Liberator, to express his opinions. Writer, Harriet Beecher Stowe revealed the conditions of slavery to the world. Abolition was the idea of emancipation of slaves and ending racial differences in America. The abolition movement spread…

Despite that the American Civil War officially began April 13, 1861 at Fort Sumter; the Civil war had been in a making for quite some time. Ever since America was barely formed the differences between the people of the North and the South arose, and as time and progression continued so did the tension in between the two. The geography was considerably dissimilar. The North dealt with bays and harbors, frozen winters and warm summers, and rocky and infertile soil. While the South managed with…

What Do We Want? America’s Cultural Revolution! When Do We Want It? The 1960s! The United States of America (and in fact, the whole world) has a long history of protest. From Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, to the trans-Atlantic Shakespearean rivalry that sparked the Astor Place Riot, to every workers’ strike from 1877 onwards; history can at times simply look like a long line of people taking action to right what they see as wrong. And yet there is one prevailing period of which the definitive…