The Fires of Jubilee/Nat Turners Fierce Rebellion

I think the psychological impact of the slave system itself , helped to motivate Nat Turner 's rebellion and prompted the rebellion . Frustration will cause you to do certain things and if I were in Nat Turner 's position , I would have killed my masters or overseers . Imagine being torn from your family , being whipped just for pleasure or being raped and treated like an animal , you have no rights and no one cares if you live or die . This would be too much of a mental strain on me . That is why some

of the slaves ran away

I do no approve of Nat Turner 's killing of women and children , but then again if he was using the Bible to justify his actions , you could say that there are parts in the Bible were God told specific people like King Saul to kill the Amalekites . God wanted everyone and everything dead , so if Turner was as deeply religious as they say , he would definitely use the Bible as a way to justify his actions . He probably thought , slave owners use the Bible to justify slavery , so why shouldn 't I

The legacy of Turner 's rebellion was a horrible one . His rebellion was one of the bloodiest and most effective ones in American history . His rebellion ignited a great fear of black slaves that spread all over the south . After the rebellion , many southern states further tightened the restrictions on the slaves . After the rebellion , many innocent slaves who never took part in the rebellion , were killed

In more and acquitted a few . The state then reimbursed the slaveholders for their slaves , but because of the hysterical climate that followed , close to two hundred black people , many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion were murdered by...