...Nat Turner was a very intelligent man based upon his confession. He claimed to have been born with a special ability given to him by the Lord to know of events from before his birth. He also believed that he was being used by the Lord for a greater purpose in his life. When he could have escaped, he felt compelled by the Spirit to return to his master and continue his work there. Upon reading the first couple of pages in his confession, Nat Turner seemed like a very respectful and innocent man. What was surprising was the lack of remorse or fear in his confession about the things he had witnessed and participated in. It felt as though he was telling a made up horror story of men, women and children getting brutally murdered in their sleep. His report of killing his master and the family is told very nonchalantly but with great detail. In the beginning of the confession when he was explaining the meeting he had to come up with the plan, he had claimed that he had no real complaint against how his master treated him. He also said his master was kind and placed great trust (confidence) in him. Despite his seemingly positive feelings towards his master, he still plotted and carried out the murder of him and his entire family. Nat gave his master a blow to the head that was not strong enough to kill so Will killed him after he woke up from the violent blow. The master’s wife was then killed in the same bed. It was disturbing reading how they had forgotten the infant that was sleeping...
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...Nat Turner's Rebellion Nat Turner, a slave from Virginia, led a rebellion against slavery and as a result he was executed afterwards. Thomas Gray interviewed Turner before his execution and wrote the book “The Confessions of Nat Turner.” The rebellion started when Turner had a spiritual revelation that came from a religious passage, and according to him, that revelation was continuously repeating. He was strongly religious, and he believed he was meant to achieve a big purpose in life. Also, he claimed that he had a vision of a battle between blacks and whites. He argued his purpose in life was to lead a rebellion against slavery, so he did. At first, Turner told his plan to slaves he trusted, but then more slaves joined the cause. The rebellion...
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...African-American History Exam 3 Fall 311/2061 1. Economic and social inferiority for African-Americans are a result of: a. Laziness b. Slavery c. Willie Lynch Syndrome d. Immigrant workers 2. Which of the following countries is not considered apart of Africa’s Classical Civilizations: a. Egypt b. Nubia c. Ghana d. Kush 3. The first African-American Studies program was established at: a. San Diego State b. Harvard c. Berkeley d. San Francisco State 4. Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy took place in a. Connecticut b. Virginia c. South Carolina d. Louisiana 5. Oludah Equiano was the first African-American to a. Write his autobiography b. Escape from Slavery c. Purchase his freedom d. Killed trying to escape 6. The first African-American Heavyweight Champion a. Booker Washington b. John L Sullivan c. Jim Jefferies d. Jack Johnson 7. This author of A Tradition of Myths and Stereotypes: a. Joseph Harris b. Edith Sanders c. Eric Williams d. Walter Rodney 8. How many Africans were brought to the New World during the Atlantic Slave Trade according to Phillip Cutain; a. 60-100 million b. 9-11.5 million c. 3 million d. 57 million 9....
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...Slave narrative is considered more work as a literature. It describes the Americans history and culture. The age of slavery was a big part of history. It was one of the cruel and brutal history. Fredrick Douglass and Nat Turner are one of the names that you would find in the history of slavery. Nat Turner is known for the most famous slave revolt in United States. While on the other hand Fedrick Douglass is known for most of his achievements as a leader. Even though they both are different they have some similar features. They both worked differently, aimed different audience and also had different aims in life. First of all, lets discuss Nat Turner confession which is a public document that was written by his lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray. It plays an important role in the development of antebellum slave society. He interviewed Turner in jail after the insurrection. It tells about Nat’s life and reality of slavery. And what made him persuade the revolt and murders. He killed...
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...disregarded. In this same way, the role of significant revolutionaries to the attainment of freedom is equally important. One of the most significant characters was Nat Turner who life and activities are clearly reconstructed in Stephen Oates’ the Fires of Jubilee. Ideally, it is reasonable to assume that prior to many of the events leading to the civil war, the white and black children were living peacefully with each other. But of more importance however, is the role that religion played in enhancing the events as explained in the Fires of Jubilee. To understand the issue further, the essay’s focus hopes to analyze the various aspect of the book; the Fires of Jubilee. Ideally, the author argues that regarding Nat Turner’s rebellion, oppression is an equally similar occurrence to violence and whose price is like a double-edged sword. This means that the rebellion...
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...NAT TURNER and JOHN BROWN SLAVERY There is a lot of stuff that people hate in this world one of the things that I hate the most would have to be slavery. Here are the lives of two men there names are Nat Turner and John Brown. These are the stories of the extraordinary men. Believing in signs and hearing divine voices, Turner had a vision in 1825 of a bloody conflict between black and white spirits. Three years later, he had what he believed to be another message from God. In his later confession, Turner explained "the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent. " Turner would receive another sign to tell him when to fight, but this latest message meant "I should arise and prepare myself and slay my enemies with their own weapons." Turner took a solar eclipse that occurred in February 1831 as a signal that the time to rise up had come. He recruited several other slaves to join him in his cause. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his supporters began their revolt against white...
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...Nat turner was a famous slave known for the rebellion. With seven fellow slaves, he tragically killed the Travis family. His fellow slaves did a lot of killing.He was important because he led to the end of the white southern myth.Nat turner was born in a small little camp (plantation) on october 2nd, 1800 in Southampton County Virginia.He was able to learn how to read & write but unfortunately,he was sold in the early 1820’s to a farmer and then again in 1830 to a worker joseph travis. later on his religion became fanaticism.He planned to capture the armory at Jerusalem, the county seat which was known well.with 71 slaves helped him to kill a slave family, later on 51 whites were murdered. Most of the slaves that helped were killed or captured.Turner...
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...The dichotomy of the philosophy of the United States Constitution and the Institution of slavery existing together in the same society led to many explosive events, one of them was Nat Turner’s fierce rebellion. The Fires of Jubilee was researched and written by Stephen B. Oates his expertise being biographies of 19th century historical figures. The book is written as a dramatic narrative, but the research into the ambiguous character of Nat Turner and the events surrounding his life is thorough and extensive. A more perfect and horrendous thought experiment about political ethics, divinity, and morality and could not have been imagined than the real life events that preceded, culminated in, and followed the slave rebellion of Southampton...
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...Dequan Green Fire of Jubilee 3 Kimbrough November 9, 2015 The title of the third chapter, "Day of Judgment," is religiously self-explanatory, in that it describes the progress of the murder spree undertaken with Nat Turner's leadership. The chapter titled "Legacy" deals with the aftermath of the rebellion, which was marked by a profoundly reactionary response and a further hardening of attitudes toward slavery, both pro and con. Even in the early period of the American republic the lines of contentious slavery discourse had been drawn, with slavery-friendly grand juries accusing foes of slavery such as the Quakers of "agitating" unrest in the slaves and the Quakers responding "that it was not their pronouncements but the slave system itself that caused Negro unrest. The basis for opposition to slavery came from certain religious quarters, and it was articulated in religious terms. Meanwhile, in this context, there was the maturing figure of Nat Turner, referred to as the "smart nigger" of Southampton, Virginia. His personality appears to have been distinctive in various ways. As Oates explains, Turner was "generally regarded him with mixture of disdain, curiosity, indulgence, humor, and even a little respect. They let him have a last name. That is important because slaves either had no last name or were given the surname of their masters. Unlike many slaves, he was able to read. In his powerless situation and in a society that valorized Christianity and Christian...
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...In many aspects,slavery dominated the south, the southerners often denied it, stating that cotton was the one who dominated that region. The southern part of the country produced cotton, millions of pounds, but also produced tobacco, rice, and sugar. The ones who had the task of the hard labor producing these crops were the slaves, but were also forced to do a vast variety of other tasks including cleaning, sailing boats, building houses, managing the labor of their fellow slaves, and even have sexual intercourse with their masters. The about to be mentioned documents express the tension that was granted for slavery between whites and blacks. James Henry Hammond ,was the governor of the state of South Carolina. as well as a slave owner. He wrote the “Letter to an English Abolitionist” in order to argue that slavery was good, and man should not fight it, in other words, he believes slaves should remain slaves, and masters should remain masters. Hammond said that there was nothing that could be done against slavery, and that it was similar to a disease, poverty, or deformity. He also states that slavery has been part of human nature and is actually acceptable, the southerners did what they believed was God’s Will. Hammond believed that Thomas Jefferson's statement “all men are created equal” was not right at all, because there have never existed a society without a variety of classes. White masters often had sexual relationships with their women slaves. One of the most notorious...
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...William Styron, who wrote “The confession of Nat Turner and Sophie’s choice”, notes, “The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis.” Harry Potter has been succeed because J.K Rowling has a distinctive look at the world, as does William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Dan Brown and so on. These famous authors can write their masterpiece because they are able to find out their unique voice for their writing. However, finding the own voice is easier said than done. How can I find my own voice? Is everything will be easier if I just agree with the authors? And why should I have my own voice in writing? The processor once said that if I want to response to the authors, I should engage with the author, understand his or her article. How can I engage with the author? Some of my classmates said that turn off my phone, study in the quiet room, and focus on the book, and study with nature which I understand are studying outside the house will help me focus. However I am a person that easily distraction, my friend said nature help her focus, with me if I study outside I may become one with the nature, I may focus on the tree...
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...Ferguson, a landmark court case challenging southern-based segregation. Dred Scott was a slave and social activist who served several masters before suing for his freedom. His case made it to the Supreme Court (Dred Scott v. Sandford) prior to the American Civil War Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and womenś rights activist. She was known for her extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, ¨Ain´t I a Woman?¨ delivered at the Ohio Womenś Rights Conventions in 1851. Nat Turner was an African American slave that helped lead the rebellion of slaves and free blacks that resulted in 200 blacks dead. This took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat was born into slavery. Harriet Tubman escaped slavery. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s. Confession 8) 9) African American Scientists and Inventors 10. Benjamin Banneker was a mathematician and astronomer. Benjamin Banneker saw some astronomical patterns in the sky, and made some calculations and predictions. He self-taught himself, and was one the the first African Americans to gain knowledge in science. Some of his most famous accomplishments are the prediction of a solar eclipse, publishing his own almanac, and the surveying of Washington D.C. George Washington...
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...Society: Through the View of Many People African-Americans, Whites, Asians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and etc…They are all classified as ethnicities, that are judged every day in some shape or form. From day one to now I’ve learned more through the class of “Black World Studies” taught by Professor Coates. Coates gave me the intelligent insight on how Africans-Americans were able to succeed through the tough times of learning even when they could die from learning how to read. It was a sacrifice the slaves had to do that the time. When I read more articles and watched more movies, it showed determination, courage, heart, and attitude. When reading, it switched to a period of slavery to a period of the Civil War. After that I came to an author named Jared Diamond that gave his view on the world of slavery. In the article “How Africa Became Black” by Jared Diamond he argues that diversity resulted from the geography of Africa. Africa is home to five major human groups, blacks, whites, African Pygmies, Khoisan, and Asians. Thirty percent of the world’s language is in Africa. But as the years goes on were losing about 2 per week. Soon as the world gets older there wouldn’t be any languages in Africa. As race continues to grow in Africa there will be different types of languages being made and the previous groups (ethnic groups of language) wouldn’t exist anymore. As said in paragraph 8 of “How Africa Became Black” races are stereotyping, from Black to White, to putting the Zulu...
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...Chapter 9 The Market Revolution 51. Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker 1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression 2. She doubt the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they talk benevolence in the parlor, compel their help to labor for a mean and paltry pittance in the kitchen. They manifest great concern for souls of the heathen in distant lands and care for nobody else besides their own. 52. Immigrants Arriving in New York City 1. The tone the reporter adopted regarding the immigrants is hostile because of how he describes the immigrants and how they looked. He described them having degraded faces with many stamps of inferiority. 2. The aspirations the reporter thinks are uppermost in the immigrant’s minds is hope, freedom, and a chance to work, and food to the laboring man. 53. A Woman in the Westward Movement 1. Moving west altered tradition expectations of women’s roles by proving that they could endure rough conditions from moving west. They were left to be lonely and the burdens of pioneer life. 2. Mrs. Noble’s main complaints about her situation on the frontier was carrying her infants and not being able to sleep because of thinking about wild beasts. She...
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...Teaching Guide The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Novel at a Glance SUMMARY The book opens with the essay “My Dungeon Shook,” written as a letter to Baldwin’s nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Baldwin says that the celebration is a hundred years too early, because black people in America are still not free. He exhorts his nephew to approach life with love, even though he lives in a racist world. In the second essay, “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” Baldwin describes his visit to the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad. Baldwin concludes that he does not agree with the Nation of Islam’s bitter beliefs about white people. In closing, Baldwin says that if Americans stop thinking of the United States as a white nation, it can transform the world. MORE ABOUT THE WRITER When James Baldwin was sixteen, he began one of the most important friendships of his life. As a confused and self-doubting teenager, he needed a mentor, and he found one in Beauford Delaney, a painter who lived in Greenwich Village in New York City. A black man and an artist, Delaney provided Baldwin with a model of how to respond to experience and transform it into works of art. Virtually taking the place of a father, Delaney introduced his young protégé not only to music and art, but also to a wide circle of friends, and Baldwin began to recognize new possibilities for himself. Through Beauford Delaney and his scratchy phonograph...
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