Nat Turner Slavery Analysis

This excerpt was taken from Nat Turner’s Confessions edited by Steven Mintz, Turner details his relationship with his master and what led to his decision to revolt in 1831.

But he was raised as someone owned and not free. He saw killings and hangings of his people, friends, and family. Turner had thought that it was the whites fault. Which in actuality it was. He did know some whites were nice and did not do anything. But he knew most were cruel and deserved what was coming to them. So, to look at his future you get an idea why he did what he did. In two days he murdered many people and the rebellion was done for that part but would continue. From all information and assumptions made from and for Nat Turner I would say that he is most definitely the leader and general of the Rebellion known as Nats Rebellion.

Nat Turner was an African American man born on October 2, 1800 on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turner, Was a leader of a violent and deadly slave rebellion. In my paper we will be learning about historical leader Nat Turner who led a slave rebellion that terrorized the south.

In South Ampton County, Virginia during the 19th century the number of black people to white people were out numbered. Nat Turner, a black and very religious man born October 17, 1800, claimed that he saw visions and heard direct statements from God. As a boy he was very respected by all and Sundry, a very intelligent and smart man. Nat’s mother, Nancy, was sold to Benjamin Turner and was brought to The United States in 1795. Turner was a very wealthy tidewater planter. While here in America, Nancy married a man and then gave birth to Nat. Instead of having the motherly instinct that you would expect her to have, Nancy actually tried to kill Nat. Nat had a special talent that people started noticing around his toddler years; that he could recall events that happened before he

Slaves performed many different services, they worked in homes, factories and helped even as skilled laborers but their most common work was in the fields, “Slaves grew a variety of crops including rice, sugar, and tobacco, but the “white gold,” cotton was central to the southern and national economies” (Foner 598-600). Cotton slowly grew into a major US export, with its exportation swelling from only a few thousand bales in the late 1700s to five million bales before the start of the Civil War (Foner 587). With the cotton crop at the time rising to unprecedented levels, not only nationally but also globally, this put extra emphasis and value on the slaves shouldering the vast workload of this economy. “By 1860 the economic value of property in slaves amounted to more than the sum of all the money invested in railroads, banks, and factories in the United States” ( Foner 595). There was so much money and business invested, tied into and benefitting from the exploitation of the free labor of these slaves. Southern Planters had major political pull and a significant portion of this country’s wealth, “Planters dominated the antebellum southern society and politics and exerted enormous influence in National affairs as well. The wealthiest Americans before the Civil War were planters in the South Carolina low country (where rice was the principal crop) and the Mississippi Valley cotton region around Natchez” (Foner 621). I believe that with all the money, power and land that was reliant on the work of the slaves there was no way these southerners were just going to give that up without a

The antebellum era (also referred to as the plantation era) between 1800’s to 1860 was a period of slave driven farming, marking the economic growth of the south. During this period in 1815, cotton was the most valuable traded produce in the United States and by 1840, it was more valuable compared to all other imported and exported goods combined. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the South was predominantly reliant on the sale of agricultural products, such as tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton estimated at 5,344,000 bales, to a worldwide market. while the southern states generated two-thirds of the world's cotton supply, the South had little industrial capability (manufactured good estimated to the value of$156,000,000), consisting of an estimated 29 percent of the railroad tracks or 14484.1km, and only 13 percent of the nation's banks. The South attempted slave labour in manufacturing, but were mainly content with their agricultural economy. Their delay in industrial expansion was not the result of any integral economic disadvantages, there was a vast amount of wealth in the South, but it was mainly bound to slave labour. In 1860, the financial value of slaves in the United States surpassed the participated value of all of the land's railroads, factories, and banks combined. the day before the Civil War, the value of cotton was at its peak, the Confederate aristocrats were confident that the significance of cotton on the world market, especially in England and France,

I am Nat Turner I was born into slavery on October 2, 1800 on a Southampton County plantation. I only knew my mother Nancy and nothing was known about who my father was. Benjamin Turner who was the owner of the plantation that I was born on allowed me to be instructed in reading, writing, and religion. When I was a small child people thought I had a special talent because I could describe things that happened before I was even born. Some also thought I would be a prophet and my mother and my grandmother told me that I was intended for some great purpose. I was deeply religious and spent most of my time reading the Bible, praying and fasting.

Nat Turner to my option is one of the most well-known and slave rebel in our history, and to this day, his actions are still remains a focus of disagreement. Although Turner’s revolt may have had some adverse effects to solve the problem of slavery, but it did do one thing for sure, it opened many American’s eyes to the issue. Slavery of African Americans, commonly called blacks, was an accepted part of our society during his time frame, and even though during this time it was not frowned upon, it still was not civilized or considered right in anyway. To my opinion, from what I read the opinion of many others that, it was the unjust and hurtful treatment of the slaves by their masters during the 1800’s that eventually led to not only Turner’s slave revolt, but it also was a big help in the movement to abolish slavery.

The stability that slavery created in the American South between 1820 and 1860 was phenomenal. Economic stability was like no other country had ever seen, this economic stability created a global marketing network throughout many different nations, trade routes that still exist within modern America today. Slavery became the bedrock of American South livelihood; it became so valuable that it was almost seen as unimaginable to live without slavery. “It was inconceivable that European colonists could have settled and developed America without slave labour taking place,” this was according to……. The reason the south prospered and grew like it did was due to slavery. The value that slaves had to their slave owners was unquestionable. Slave owners were able to receive loans, whilst using their slaves as guarantors; these loans would then have been used in the purchasing of further land, more livestock and more slaves. It was also said that slave owners used their slaves to pay of any outstanding debt they may have had. It is clear to see the economic value that slaves possessed; they were included in the valuation of estates, for example; (Example), and this in turn became a source of tax revenue for the National as well as the local Governments, it was also

Slavery back in the 1800s was for profit, despite there not being a lot of profit. Slavery now, despite being illegal and short-term, has very high profit. The most profiting type of slavery back in the 1800s was forced labor, as that was the most common types of slavery. It was mostly for plantations, and cotton farming. Nowadays, slavery is used for sex trafficking forced labor, child trafficking, and even forced marriage. It is very high profit, as work is short- term but well paying despite being very

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     In the later 1700’s to 1863, slavery was an intricate part of the South. Slaves were needed for plantation work like planting, caring for, and harvesting crops to maintaining the land. After