...Nat Turner was born a week before Gabriel Prosser was executed. Prosser was a leader in a failed slave revolt to free slaves in Virginia.Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia, on October 2, 1800. Nat Turner was an interesting individual he was intelligent and superstitious of what nature tells him. Turner was a preacher that would go to plantations across Virginia to preach to the slaves. This is what helped him get word to slaves of the revolt he was going to do. This revolt was one of the bloodiest and most effective ones that occurred in the south. Turner was sold out three times, his first master being Benjamen Turner, second was Samuel Turner and his final owners would be the Travis family. When Samuel Turner was his master he ran away from the plantation in the year 1821. Thirty days hiding in the woods, he had a visiion that instructed him to "return to his earthly master" (Nat Turners Rebellion)....
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...I wanted to share a revolt that stuck out to me; the Louisiana uprising in 1811 started three major slave plots in the nineteenth century. The first was Gabriel’s Rebellion, Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy, then the rebellion organized by Nat Turner. The first and most impressionable to me was Gabriel’s Rebellion, led by brothers, Gabriel and Martin Prosser, a slave preacher. The rebellion was organized in Richmond, Virginia in 1800. Martin used his time as a preacher to organize slaves at funerals and secret religious meetings. He preached the story of the Israelites escaping Egyptian bondage to justify rebellion. The plan was to march on Richmond from surrounding plantations; seize the city’s arsenal and kill all the white residents. What made...
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...checks and balances to ensure no single branch would have too much power. The Bill of Rights is 10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections such as freedom of speech and religion which became part of the Constitution in 1791. America's first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, was approved in 1781, a time when the nation was a confederation of states that each operated like independent countries. The debate of the constitution focused on contentious issues like the question of state representation in the national legislature and slavery. Slavery The American Civil War approximately 4 million enslaved African Americans lived in the southern region of the United States of America. The vast majority worked as plantation slaves in the production of cotton, sugar, and tobacco. Very few of these enslaved people were African born principally because the importation of enslaved Africans to the United States officially ended in 1808, although thousands were smuggled into the nation illegally in the 50 years following the ban on the international trade. These...
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...Causes of the American Civil War (Colonial America to the 1850s) A lot of important events and people have paved the way towards the American civil war. Each event that ever happened within the time period of 1790 to 1850 all lead to the civil war. Some example of key people and events would be the following: the bill of rights being ratified, the fugitive slave act, the cotton gin, Tennessee, John Adams, George Washington, Gabriel's Rebellion, Ohio, the Louisiana Purchase, the Embargo act, the International slave trade, James Madison, the Battle of New Orleans, Reverend Allen, Missouri compromise, Demark Vesey's Conspiracy, Africans losing their boats, Monroe Doctrine, Nat Turner's revolt, The Alamo, Gag rule, Trail of tears, Harriet Tubman, California. All of these are some major events that caused the civil war itself. All of these events had also contributed to the rise of the English colony and the break off point from the mainland in Europe. All of the events/ people mention previously are going to be used to tell how the American civil war started and how each led to a chain reaction of other events that occurred. These events will each tell a story of its own and slowly build up to the civil war itself. Other events along the way will show up as a result of an event occurring. Both the north and the South had different events which lead up to the civil war but we will mostly focus on the more major events that took place. The Rise of...
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