The point that I am trying to prove with my historical investigation is: How did Nat Turner’s rebellion lead to the commencement of the Civil War in the United States thirty years after the insurrection took place. In order to answer this, one must comprehend why the Southampton Insurrection occurred, the influence it left on people and the history of the United States, and the reasons as to why the Civil War was fought. After extensive research, two of my most valuable sources I used were Scot French’s historical book The Rebellious Slave Nat Turner in American Memory and the Rebecca Vaughan House’s project on Nat Turner/1831 Southampton Insurrection Trial & restoration of the Rebecca Vaughan House, located on the Museum of Southampton History. …show more content…
Scot French created a historical book that is indeed a secondary source that considered other historians point of view as to what effect the rebellion had along with a primary copy of Thomas Gray’s The Confessions of Nat Turner that was written just after Nat Turner was imprisoned where he confessed all of the things that made him rebel and the effects it immediately had. Since the book was published in New York about 173 years after the Insurrection took place, some information may have been lost through the course of time and the stories may have changed when passed down and have bias hidden within the facts. Scot French’s book has value since it has an appropriate scope and has an abundance of information contributing to the effects of Nat Turner’s rebellion. The essence of Scot French’s book is to explain why Nat Turner is seen as an enigmatic figure of the rebellion spread across American history so rapidly and powerfully. The Nat Turner Project in the Rebecca Vaughan House and the Southampton County Historical Society perceived the chance to showcase and present truthfully the occasions of the Insurrection. The Society led the activity to set up an exhibition and memorable trail. The gallery, the Rebecca Vaughan House, is the point of convergence of an instructive ordeal which utilizes an assortment of interpretive strategies, intelligent displays and place-based learning chances to precisely express the reasons, occasions, and effect of the 1831 Southampton Insurrection. The overall goal of this project to bring about light and learning experiences and interpret the cause and effects of the Insurrection. Although it is a secondary source and is being put into place long after the actual rebellion, this project has the benefit of hindsight since its goal is to bring about to the long lasting effects of the rebellion. Part 3: Reflection After the completion of this historical investigation, I am mindful of the significance of delivering an adjusted argument which introduces both sides of the story. I am additionally mindful of the significance of knowing how reliable a source is and how an assortment of sources is required. It has likewise made me understand the amount of work I truly need to put into such an errand and that I have to better designate time to research, accumulate information, and to compose the essay in a timely fashion. I also learned to use time satisfactorily to discover data utilize various sources to accomplish precise. Substantial data I learned an abundance of data concerning my theme that I would have generally not known without first writing this investigation. I also learned how to organize data in order to compose a well written essay. I found it challenging at first to actually develop a question for something that was interesting to me and had to change my topic a numerous amount of times before I eventually got to this current one. I also found it tedious to add footnotes of the sources I used correctly and the took up an abundance of time since I had to see how the footnotes were properly used at first in order to precisely place them in my essay. Through this process, I also took into account how to ensure that a source is reliable: check to see if an abundance of other sources have the same or similar information. I also figured that bias has complete control over historians and they cannot help but spread their bias throughout their works of literature by choosing to leave out or add information regarding the topic at hand. This experienced has influenced my understanding of proof in history because without the facts, then one does not have an argument and that topic that you are discussing and the points you’ve tried to prove become invalid.
The Fires of Jubilee, is a well written recollection of the slave insurrection led by Nathaniel Turner. It portrays the events leading towards the civil war and the shattered myth of contented slaves in the South. The book is divided into four parts: This Infernal Spirit of Slavery, Go Sound the Jubilee, Judgment Day, and Legacy.
The North is popularly considered the catalyst of the abolitionist movement in antebellum America and is often glorified in its struggle against slavery; however, a lesser-known installment of the Northern involvement during this era is one of its complicity in the development of a “science” of race that helped to rationalize and justify slavery and racism throughout America. The economic livelihood of the North was dependent on the fruits of slave labor and thus the North, albeit with some reluctance, inherently conceded to tolerate slavery and moreover embarked on a quest to sustain and legitimize the institution through scientific research. Racism began to progress significantly following the American Revolution after which Thomas Jefferson himself penned Notes on the State of Virginia, a document in which he voiced his philosophy on black inferiority, suggesting that not even the laws of nature could alter it. Subsequent to Jefferson’s notes, breakthroughs in phrenological and ethnological study became fundamental in bolstering and substantiating the apologue of racial inadequacy directed at blacks. Throughout history, slavery was indiscriminate of race and the prospect acquiring freedom not impossible; America, both North and South, became an exception to the perennial system virtually guaranteeing perpetual helotry for not only current slaves but also their progeny.
After careful consideration, I have decided to use the books dedicated to David Walker’s Appeal and The Confessions of Nat Turner and compare their similarities and differences. It is interesting to see how writings which has the same purpose of liberating enslaved Black people can be interpreted so differently, especially in the matter of who was reading them. Akin to how White people reacted to Turner’s Rebellion, which actually had promising results while most would see the immediate backlashes and to which I intend to explain more. As most would put emphasis on the Confession itself, I assume, I decided to focus more on the reactions and related documents regarding the Rebellion.
Unfortunantly for the new leaders of the nation, they were left with many issues that challenged American ideals, including slavery. 1831 was a very pivotal year for the beginning of the abolishment of slavery. Soon after the eclipse, fear spread throughout Virginia of a possible slave rebellion. Eventhough some slave owners treated their slaves well, it did not mean they were safe from attack. On August 22, Nat Turner killed his master along with his family, the first account of slave rebellion in history. Turner’s Rebellion instilled fear in southern slave owners that a planned attack could occur at any moment (19). Thomas R. Gray, a slave owner and lawyer interviewed the slaves behind bars. He spoke with Turner for three day...
I began the research for this paper looking to write about Frederick Douglass’ drive to start his abolitionist paper The North Star. What I then found in my research was the writings of a man I had never before heard of, Martin R. Delaney. Delaney and Douglass were co-editors of the paper for its first four years, therefore partners in the abolitionist battle. Yet I found that despite this partnership these men actually held many differing opinions that ultimately drove them apart.
Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
The article, “The Negro’s Civil War in Tennessee, 1861-1865” by Bobby L. Lovett, can be found in "The Journal of Negro History. Lovett's article relates the importance of the contributions the black soldiers of Tennessee made during the Civil War. He portraits to the reader the determination of these black Tennesseans fight to gain their freedom under some extremely violent and racial conditions.
The quote above is from the British governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore who proclaimed freedom for African American slaves who fought for the British, after George Washington announced there would be no additional recruitment of Blacks in the Continental army in 1776. For numerous free blacks and enslaved blacks, the Revolutionary War was considered to be an essential period in black manifestation. Many public officials (like Dunmore), who initially had not expressed their views on slavery, saw the importance of African Americans and considered them an imperative tool in winning the war. Looking back, it almost seems like an inherent paradox in white America’s desire of emancipation from England while there still enslaving blacks. This concept has different grounds in white’s idea of liberation in comparison to that of the African-Americans. To white Americans, this war was for liberation in a political/economical tone rather than in the sense of the privatized oppression that blacks suffered from. But what started this war and what would this mean for blacks? How did these African Americans contribute to the war effort? What were there some of their duties? How did the white communities perceive them? How did it all end for these blacks? The main topic of this paper is to show how the use African Americans helped the control the outcome of the war while monitoring their contributions.
The majority of speculations regarding the causes of the American Civil War are in some relation to slavery. While slavery was a factor in the disagreements that led to the Civil War, it was not the solitary or primary cause. There were three other, larger causes that contributed more directly to the beginning of the secession of the southern states and, eventually, the start of the war. Those three causes included economic and social divergence amongst the North and South, state versus national rights, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case. Each of these causes involved slavery in some way, but were not exclusively based upon slavery.
men. Slaves also feared the whip and even death if they were to act out
Oates, Stephen. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. Print.
Nat Turner led the largest slave revolt in history. The organization was one of the bloodiest slave rebellions before the civil war. This was the rebellion that served to change the course of American history. Nat Turner led a life by helping other slaves overcome suffrage during the 1800s by starting a rebellion between them and their slave masters. He also had a large religious following, which went on to inspire some of the greatest African American activist in history like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. While he was a slave, he showed others how the divisions of blacks and whites shouldn’t be tolerated in this world. Nat Turner was living through god and justifying his actions as an act of god. And felt like his job was to be the punisher of evil on earth sent from god.
October 30. He was quickly tried, sentenced to death, and hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia, on
uses God as a principle. There was a lot of confusion going on as people didn’t know what to believe. Only Nat Turner and God know what the truth is. It’s a twisted way to see how religion was played in the Nat Turner rebellion. To finalize, the ideal point of the story of Nat Turner and the reasoning’s behind the Nat Turner Rebellion movement was to stop being owned by white slave owners and let African-Americans be free. Nat Turner rebellion was a savage movement towards justice for African-Americans freedom and a closer step to end slavery. Clearly, Turner left a noticeable act in America and he led a powerful path in order to leave a statement that African-Americans should not be treated like animals as they’re human beings as well.
Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led what was called the “Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion” where slaves and free blacks who were located in Southampton County, Virginia. This rebellion took place on August 21, 1831, and as a result at least fifty-five whites were murdered. All of those who took part in this rebellion were to be executed, including Nat Turner. While Nat Turner was awaiting execution he was interviewed for two months by a man named Thomas Ruffin Gray, a wealthy lawyer and slave owner himself. Thomas Gray’s purpose for writing “The Confessions of Nat Turner” was to put what Nat Turner said into writing and for it to be published.