Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
Slave Revolts and Resistance
Resisting slavery
-rebel
-run away
-daily acts of resistance
Early Revolts
Nat turner Revolt-1831
-Nat Turner, a slave who was a Baptist preacher
-God telling him to lead an uprising of slaves
-Turner and 6 others went to the Travis Plantation Turner's current master and killed the entire family of 5,
-55 white Southerners, 55 slaves, 200 African Americans in the days after b
-Turner was hung, his body mutilated and divided up amongst the crowd watching the hanging.
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion 1800-Gabriel Prosser, a blacksmith, and his brother Martin, a slave preacher, planned a major rebellion in Virginia recruited thousand slaves betrayed and hung
Denmark Vesey's Uprising 1822-Israelite freedom …show more content…
They would generally travel between 10 and 20 miles to the next station, where they would rest and eat, hiding in barns and other out-of-the-way places.
-Running away was difficult; slaves had to leave behind family members and risk harsh punishment or even death if caught.
-after the Revolutionary War, the North came to symbolize freedom to many slaves, who spread the word that following the North Star could lead to freedom. Spirituals could contain hidden instructions. For instance, the spiritual "Follow the Drinking Gourd" made reference to the Big Dipper and the North Star and was likely used to guide slaves north to Canada.
-The fugitives would also travel by train and boat -- conveyances that sometimes had to be paid Vigilance committees
-New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Raised money
South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850
-Henry [Box] Brown traveled from Virginia to Philadelphia in a
Resisting slavery
-rebel
-run away
-daily acts of resistance
Early Revolts
Nat turner Revolt-1831
-Nat Turner, a slave who was a Baptist preacher
-God telling him to lead an uprising of slaves
-Turner and 6 others went to the Travis Plantation Turner's current master and killed the entire family of 5,
-55 white Southerners, 55 slaves, 200 African Americans in the days after b
-Turner was hung, his body mutilated and divided up amongst the crowd watching the hanging.
Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion 1800-Gabriel Prosser, a blacksmith, and his brother Martin, a slave preacher, planned a major rebellion in Virginia recruited thousand slaves betrayed and hung
Denmark Vesey's Uprising 1822-Israelite freedom …show more content…
They would generally travel between 10 and 20 miles to the next station, where they would rest and eat, hiding in barns and other out-of-the-way places.
-Running away was difficult; slaves had to leave behind family members and risk harsh punishment or even death if caught.
-after the Revolutionary War, the North came to symbolize freedom to many slaves, who spread the word that following the North Star could lead to freedom. Spirituals could contain hidden instructions. For instance, the spiritual "Follow the Drinking Gourd" made reference to the Big Dipper and the North Star and was likely used to guide slaves north to Canada.
-The fugitives would also travel by train and boat -- conveyances that sometimes had to be paid Vigilance committees
-New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Raised money
South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850
-Henry [Box] Brown traveled from Virginia to Philadelphia in a