Today in America most people have the freedom to express what they wish to if they do not agree with an opinion. Buy a house and a car they can afford. Children have the privilege to have access to free school up until the twelve grade. But what if one day to the next all those privileges or rights were taken away because someone simply said so? That was the type of world that Nat Turner lived in during 1831. Because of his skin color someone dictated what he could wear, eat, when and where he could sleep, what he could learn, who he could speak to and when, what he could believe in and practice, “When the white people would not let us get baptized by the church, we went down into the water together, in the sight of many who reviled us, and …show more content…
He was born onto slavery and witness awful things at such a young age. Turner has had no say and no freedom at any time in his life from the moment he was born. The only choice that was not made by him was his decision to start a revolt and take his freedom. Turner claims that he was chosen by the Almighty to live out his destiny and no one will ever be able to prove whether that was true or not. What can be proven is that slavery was inhumane and can drive an individual to decide when it is time to make a change. Turner was not the only one who committed murdered at that time. Slaves that were not associated with the revolt were murdered too because White people were upset with a group of black slaves. How is what the slave holders did to retaliate any different than what Turner did? If anything, Turner had a strong motive, his freedom, and the Whites simply did it because they were angry. I think the story of Nat Turner should be used as a concrete example of what slavery was. Slavery was so negatively powerful that it drove about eighty men to flip a switch and decide killing was their only way out of slavery. They decided they all had