Slavery In Fires Of Jubilee By Stephen B. Oates

There are different ways in which Nat Turner just like many slaves defined slavery as discussed below. In the Fires of Jubilee, by Stephen B. Oates, his rebellion to slave trade is believed to have impacted greatly to subsequent resistance to it. Nat Turner is described as a slave who was the leader of 1831 salve rebellion which failed in Southampton County, Virginia. Though it failed, it played an important part in how antebellum slave society developed. Turner had an experience as a slave following his work in Southern plantations. Because of the slavery experience, he had very little freedom, making it hard for him to marry, move without permission from the masters, own property and even make any earning of money. From his vision and belief in God, Turner thought of masters and white supremacy as against the God’s way of life in which human beings are to treat each other fairly. Based on that, he thought that the masters were inhuman and did not have respect to what God had created. He spread this gospel to many people who later joined in his rebellion fight.

These masters had grabbed large tracks of lands which were now plantation and had managed to make use of forced labor from the slaves. This was interpreted by Turner and his followers as an act of exploitation and there was no fairness in which the resources were shared among people. The masters had taken advantage of their positions to exploit all the available resources for their own advantages and had little consideration for the masses. According to Turner, the masters were militia that was only interested in making the lives of the slaves more difficult. They were only interested in using the slaves as a means of production and did not recognize the human aspect in them, thus why the masters could kill the slaves with very little consideration of their