Summary Of Nat Turner Rebellion

In the narrative of The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates is a picturesque and skillful narrative about the revolution of slaves fighting back. Nat Turner was a very always seen as a leader, respectful, hardworking and mentioned as “The Prophet” and uniquely smart to be an African American in this time period. As the black race, slaves and free blacks, they were tired of being treated as chattel and afraid to live to their true abilities. It is time for a change to happen and this is where the rebellion begins. Nat’s rebellion showed slaves and white race when the first should be last and the last should be first; it was time for a change, a revolution. They were not going to hand it to you, you have to take

They were all slave comprehensive plots to rebel and to get to a free land. Nat was using this to create a vision on his rebellion on what and how to do things when the time came. Nat was very secretive when it came to telling people his plan on the rebellion. He would reveal the plan to a small band of slaves so it would be easier to achieve the mission. He choose not to tell the whole village of slaves due to the fact that he know some would tell the masters what was doing on and some did not want to cause any complications. He also avoided telling the free slaves because typically they did not want anything to do with having issues with slave owners and the law because they could be brought back into slavery. From a free slave perspective I have not been involved with the rebellion, unless we made it out safe and unknown but that never happens in these slave uprisings. I would keep my peace, which is sad to say because one should fight for what they believe in. Nat was not a racist or had hatred for anyone. He once baptized a white overseer to the astonishment of all who witnessed the unusual act. He played an excellent role of not showing he wanted to rebel they show him as the mannered, smart, prophet that would obey them the rest of his life and die an unknown slave. They thought

Known as the biggest and deadliest slave revolution in history. The rebellion begins. Nat being a God fearing he waited for a vision, an “I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle- the thunder rolled in the Heavens and blood flowed in streams” (Oates 68). The rebellion was not something he just thought about in his dreams it was something him and God talked about on several occasions. He was not just a crazy killer it was always meaning to the madness. Nat goal was to get to Jerusalem and take over the arsenals there being only two or three miles away, but that plan did not happen. As one of Nat’s battle warrior I would have been a little skeptical and timid about doing this. They were putting themselves and families life in jeopardy if they were caught. My family would have had to agree with what I does doing and bite the bullet if I did not come home; because I was fighting for a better life for us. They were dedicated to complete the mission. They were fearless with the killing they would slash the white people with axes riding horseback and shoot them in the middle of the night having no mercy, not even on the children. They encountered the slaves on the planation as they went on the killing spree some kept quiet some joined Nat and his men to try an accomplish the rebellion. Nat did not have fear of that, he simply knew that would happen some slaves have loyalty to their masters and he respected that