The Confession Of Nat Turner's Life

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“Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.”, a famous quote by “The Confession of Nat Turner “What is the Confession of Nat Turner? Well it all start with knowing who is Nat Turner?
Nat Turner is a slave man that was born on October 2, 1800 on a Southampton County plantation. When Turner was small, he has figured that he might have a special talent because he could describe what the life is like before he was born. Nat’s mother and grandmother told him that he was born with a great purpose. After hearing, what his mother and grandmother have said, he has grown deeply into religious and spent most of his time reading bible, praying and fasting. Over the year, Turner had worked for the Travis family. In 1825, Turner had a vision that he could see a bloody conflict between the black and white spirits. Then, in 1831, he asked other slaves to join his revolt against white slaves’ owners as they killed the Travis family. …show more content…

Kaye, we have an excellent perspectives of what Nat Turner’s life is like as he become today saying of “The bloody revolt slave leader in the history”. Since he was known as “The bloody revolt slave leader”, it overthrown the fear for many people, including John Hampden Pleasants, who is a Newspaper Editor. Pleasants express his concern about the uprising being the product of more than just one neighborhood because it could restrict the limits to the neighborhood and lead consequence to the other countries. This has led to the subject of huge debate from the neighborhood. He also mentions that Turner’s rebellion is a “mischief perpetrated” because it bring numbers of the negroes to a thousand or 1200 mean, which is like a huge amount of

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