Many Rivers To Cross
“Many Rivers To Cross”
Briante’ Nimmons
US History
Professor Kane
19 November, 2014
Mumbet’s lawsuit for freedom was different because she a female African American slaves. Richard Allen was an educator, minister, and a writer. He is one of the most active black leaders. Richard Allen gained his freedom by buying it at the age of 17. Afterwards he went and found the first national black Church in the U.S. Philadelphia was so important to black African Americans because it opposed slavery on religious ground. It also had a population growth of free black people. They went there to make a new lifestyle and to get a job. Richard did a sit-in in a church. During the sit-in Richard Allen and other people went to the front of the church and sat by members of the church and pray. After the prayer was over they would leave. Richard was important to black African Americans in Philadelphia because he started his own African American Church. Gabriel’s goal was to plot a revolt. He recruited people from all over and trained them for battle. Their plan was to seize the Virgin Capital and to kidnap the government to end slavery. Him and his people had to go another day because of a horrible storm. Gabriel’s goal failed because one of his men panicked and told their masters leading Gabriel and other to be killed. The reasons for the expansion of cotton and slavery in the antebellum south were the invention of the cotton gin that was invented by Eli Whitney. The textile benefited everyone, tobacco was losing its value, textile industries in Great Britain, and to make clothing materials you needed cotton. The impact of the domestic slave trade caused shattered families within African Americans, triggered separation in black slave families. Nat Tuner’s rebellion was important because it was a turning point. It was one of the biggest rebellions to take place in the U.S. The free black nation maintained their freedom by being called by the government do hunt
Briante’ Nimmons
US History
Professor Kane
19 November, 2014
Mumbet’s lawsuit for freedom was different because she a female African American slaves. Richard Allen was an educator, minister, and a writer. He is one of the most active black leaders. Richard Allen gained his freedom by buying it at the age of 17. Afterwards he went and found the first national black Church in the U.S. Philadelphia was so important to black African Americans because it opposed slavery on religious ground. It also had a population growth of free black people. They went there to make a new lifestyle and to get a job. Richard did a sit-in in a church. During the sit-in Richard Allen and other people went to the front of the church and sat by members of the church and pray. After the prayer was over they would leave. Richard was important to black African Americans in Philadelphia because he started his own African American Church. Gabriel’s goal was to plot a revolt. He recruited people from all over and trained them for battle. Their plan was to seize the Virgin Capital and to kidnap the government to end slavery. Him and his people had to go another day because of a horrible storm. Gabriel’s goal failed because one of his men panicked and told their masters leading Gabriel and other to be killed. The reasons for the expansion of cotton and slavery in the antebellum south were the invention of the cotton gin that was invented by Eli Whitney. The textile benefited everyone, tobacco was losing its value, textile industries in Great Britain, and to make clothing materials you needed cotton. The impact of the domestic slave trade caused shattered families within African Americans, triggered separation in black slave families. Nat Tuner’s rebellion was important because it was a turning point. It was one of the biggest rebellions to take place in the U.S. The free black nation maintained their freedom by being called by the government do hunt