Examples Of Nat Turner Rebellion

Rebellions Rebellion: an open, organized, and armed resistance to one’s government or ruler. And I’m not talking about just “rebelling” against your parents by staying out past curfew. Some rebellion involves a degree of defiance that requires violence and law breaking. But others are more silent such as the creation of newspapers. There were plenty of rebellions that shaped history from acts of disobedience, boycotts, newspapers, social movements, and violent uprisings. The three that I will be focusing on are Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Frederick Douglass, and the New York fire. Nat Turner’s Rebellion, 1831, began with his ‘Godly’ reputation that impressed his family and friends. Even in adolescence, he had an unusual amount of a sense of

Nat Turner’s Rebellion happened in Virginia, Frederick Douglass started out in Maryland, and the fires happened in New York City. It matters where they happened because of the type of people it affected. Slave rebellions made more of an impact and a shock to more southern states where they wanted to keep slavery. Gender played a role in the methods of rebellion because every rebellion happened to be predominantly black males. The fires included some whites because they were found by the court to be the alleged “ring-leaders” but all were males across the board. In each rebellion different skills were utilized. In the Nat Turner Rebellion he believed, “by signs in the heavens that it would make known to me when I should commence the great work- and until the first sign appeared, I should conceal it from the knowledge of men- and on the appearance of the sign (the eclipse of the sun last February) I should arise and prepare myself, and slay me enemies with their own weapons” (Baker 110). His knowledge of religion and visions was his skill required to know ‘when’ to tell the other slaves and act upon them. For Frederick Douglass, his skill was that he could communicate to the masses through his newspapers and therefore led to his traveling around the United States and Britain where he lectured on civil rights and social justice issues after he successfully escaped slavery life. But neither of them, Nat nor Frederick, would’ve

The differences between them happened because of all kinds of factors. Nat Turner and his followers happened to have a weapon and “a general destruction of property and search for money and ammunition always succeeded the murders,” (Baker 128). They happened upon the weapons and money. Frederick Douglass happened to succeed in his escape of the slavery life that Nat Turner and the slaves involved in the fires weren’t so lucky and were caught and prosecuted. Turner’s rebellion was a massacre that sent surrounding whites into panic even though he had no plan to do so, he was just told it was what he had to do. Similarly, Douglass knew he had to help others but was able to do so across the United States and Britain but Turner couldn’t spread his word any farther because he was caught and