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Brief Summary Of Turner's Rebellion By Oates

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In this short summary of a book, Oates, make sure that the reader understands how intelligent Turner really is. Turner read mostly the Bible, any chance he could. Now Turner did read other things, but the Bible allowed him to see that white people, trying to justify that slavery was right, were in fact wrong. The Bible also showed him stories of people that had been captured and later fought and were liberated from being enslaved, or held captive. This influence is what later led Turner to his rebellion. Turner’s rebellion consisted of other slaves, around fifty to sixty in numbers, went through the county killing people from farms to plantations. Their plan was to destroy some farms in Jerusalem, VA, but their plan didn’t go accordingly and
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