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calls out whites for being mass murderers then invokes history to push a rebuttal of his own claim
one of my favorite moments in american history. i'm still waiting on a movie centered around these events and the haitian revolution. i remember being sent to the office for calling out my history teacher for trying to sugarcoat it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...ushpmg00000038
On November 11th, 1831 Nat Turner leader of the slave revolt was hanged after leading a violent slave rebellion in Virginia.
He led the uprising on August 21st 1831, and successfully hid in the woods for six weeks. Turner believed he was chosen by God to relieve slaves from bondage. With a group of about 40 to 50 slaves, it's estimated around 55 white men women and children were killed during Turner's rebellion.
Turner's actions resulted in harsher slave laws in the South, but also helped push the abolitionist movement in the North.
is it r day? first the knockout game with kids throwing sucker punches at defenseless people then these animals killing women and children.
nat was one of the trillest men in history
Which history teacher did you call out?
nat was one of the trillest men in history
Doing that in 1831 was brave. Playing the "knockout" game in 2013 -- cowardly, tbh.
Not long after David Walker issued his radical appeal, the bloodiest slave revolt in US history occurred: Nat Turner's rebellion in Southampton, Virginia, in 1831. Nat was a "mystical" slave who could read and write, and who interpreted the eclipse of the sun on February 12 as a sign from God that he should "arise and prepare myself... to slay my enemies.. with their own weapons." Nat confided his plans only to four trusted slave allies until it was too late for them to be betrayed.
Then, on the evening of August 21, Turner and his band began their reign of terror by killing all white people they encountered, beginning with Nat's master's family. The group gathered weapons, provisions, horses, and additional slaves. By August 23 the band consisted of seventy slaves, and they had slain more than 57 white men, women, and children. When some in Turner's group went to recruit more slaves, Turner's party was attacked by whites. Though turner's force initially repulsed this attack, reinforcements for the white forces eventually overwhelmed the group.
As Turner's forces scattered, hundreds of white volunteers and militia rushed to the area and began massacring Blacks indiscriminately. Turner eluded capture for months by living in a little cave in the ground near his former home, until he was discovered by Benjamin Phipps on October 30. Unlike Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey, Turner spoke openly during his trial about his role in the uprising.
He pleaded not guilty, however, because "he did not feel so," having been directed by God. He was hung on November 11. - Jeffery C. Stewart
"Nat seems very humble; willing to answer any questions, indeed quite communicative, and I am disposed to think he tells the truth. I heard him speak more than an hour. He readily avowed his motive; confessed that he was the prime instigator of the plot, that he alone opened his master's doors and struck his master the first blow with a hatchet. He clearly verified the accounts which have been given of him. He is a shrewd, intelligent fellow" - Richmond Whig
The bodies of those executed, with one exception, were buried in a decent and becoming manner. That of Nat Turner was delivered to the doctors, who skinned and made grease of his flesh. Mr. R. S. Barham's father owned a money purse made of his hide. His skeleton was for many years in the possession of Dr. Massenberg, but has since been misplaced. - William Sidney Drewry
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