Causes Of Slave Revolts

“The cause of slave revolts is slavery.” A quote I read from the article Rebels Against Slavery- American Slave Revolts. In the article it reads that slavery is as old as recorded history and wherever there was slave rebellions, slavery had existed. The rebellions ranged from individual acts of defiance to organized armed revolts. People such as Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, William Penn, Harriet Tubman and many more worked to weaken the control of slavery and end its cruel ways. Revolts should clearly have been expected by all slave owners, that wherever slavery existed there would be revolts as a result. Not only the black slaves, but whites also wanted to take charge of the acts of slavery. Therefore, how did white and blacks work to

Another example is Lucretia Mott, who was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women 's rights activist and a social reformer. Mott was involved in a number of anti-slavery organizations one of them including the famous World 's Anti-Slavery convention in London in 1840. Mott and other white and blacks founded the Philadelphia anti-slavery society. The organization opposed both slavery and racism and bonded close ties with the black community. Mott and other Quakers refused to use materials that had required slave labor such as cotton cloth, cane sugar and other slavery produced goods. Even though Quakers played major roles in ending slavery some early Quakers believed it was okay to own slaves and be slave owners. For example, William Penn who founded a haven for Quakers and other minority religious groups, owned slaves. Penn believed that “Slavery was perfectly acceptable, provided that slave owners attended to the spiritual material needs of those they enslaved.” Jim Powell also points out about Penn “had a curious blind spot about slavery… Quakers were far ahead of most other Americans, but it’s surprising that people with their humanitarian views could have contemplated owning slaves at all.” Overall some Quakers did contribute to slavery when others did many things to try and prevent it from happening. Quakers were some of the first to denounce slavery in American colonies and Europe. Some also became the first to have a shared stand against slavery and the slave

Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818. He attempted to escape slavery twice before he eventually succeeded, with the help of Anna Murray, a woman he loved. Eventually Douglass was asked to tell his story at abolitionist meetings becoming a regular anti-slavery speaker. Douglass made a well known speech commonly known as “What to a slave is the 4th of July” Douglass’s speech mainly implied the bizzarity of them inviting him to speak since Douglass was once a slave he saw no relation or need to celebrate with them. He quotes in one of speeches “I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing has brought stripes and death to me … You may rejoice I must mourn.” This was presented in New York on July 5, 1852. He had been invited to speak for what the 4th of July meant for the America’s black population. The real subject of his speech is mainly about slavery. He continues to criticize America for being untrue to its founding principles, its past and present. He sums up asking how some can put slavery on some when they would never impose it on themselves. Douglass ends saying how he thinks anti-slavery