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Summary Of Fires Of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

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Black, Colored, Negroes, Niggers… All names that had been given to describe “darker” skinned toned individuals whom only wanted the pleasure of being free in a land full of opportunity. Imagine being taken from what you know as home to be turned into someone’s property and considered no more as free; to be considered no more as human but as chattel. The question is, who? Who in the hell would want to be a slave? “The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turners Fierce Rebellion” by Stephen Oates happened to be one the most vivid books in which provided its audience with details that placed the reader in the shoes of the characters whom suffered for years because of a law that imprisoned human beings because of the complexion of their skin, filling their heads …show more content…

Women slaves were being used to have sex with the master and husbands of these women on some occasions being forced to watch, some even baring children for their masters. As stated in the Fires of Jubilee Frederick Douglass cried out “I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. O, God, save me! God deliver me! Let me be free! Is there any God? Why am I a slave? I will run away. I will not stand it. Get caught, or get clear, I’ll try it. I have only one life to lose. I had as well be killed running as die standing.” Nat Turner eventually did likewise with other slaves who also wanted freedom just as bad as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and many other slaves who attempted to escape such cruel abusive circumstances and if you are as lucky, and fierce as Harriet Tubman you will. Nat Turner managed to escape to freedom for so long but eventually was caught in the process due to the borders being guarded. One of the many scriptures that Nat read during the night that acknowledges just how wrong these individuals were for imprisoning blacks happened to be Exodus 21:16. Exodus 21:16 says “And he that stealeth a Man and selleth him or he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.” The book of Deuteronomy 24:7 states “If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him; then that thief shall die; and though shalt put evil away from among you’.” This seemed to encourage Nat Turner as if God was speaking to him to revolt and fight against every slaveowner in Southampton

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