Nat Turner Birth Of Nation Essay
Nate Parker's Birth of Nation follows the journey of an enslaved Baptist preacher who resides on a plantation in Virginia owned by Samuel Turner. With talks of insurrection going around, a cleric persuades Samuel that Nate should preach to other slaves, to quell any rumors of an uprising. Therefore, as Nat goes around preaching he witnesses the horrific treatment of African-Americans he then realizes that he can no longer just stand by. As a result, Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion which spreads terror throughout the white south. I really enjoyed the movie because with it being rated R it allowed the movie to show some of the true horrors of slavery. Also, the acting was really good as well as how the story played out. Furthermore, the slow
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First off the film failed to mention Nat Turner ran away in 1825, but came back because he felt he heard a message from the Holy Spirit. Second, Nat Turner did not kill Samuel Turner, he died of another cause. Also, during the rebellion Nat was under the house of Thomas Moore not Samuel Turner. However, the film does capture some accuracies. Nat Turner was in fact a talented young boy. According to Christopher Klein, Turner told Ruffin Gray in a jailhouse interview, that when he was three or four years old, he could provide details of events that occurred before his birth. His astonished mother and others took the comments as signs that he was a prophet and “intended for some great purpose.” The young slave showed “uncommon intelligence” and was taught to read and write. His deeply religious grandmother nurtured his spiritual development. “To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed” Also, the scene is the movie where Nat Turner took a solar eclipse in 1831 as a sign is correctly
First off the film failed to mention Nat Turner ran away in 1825, but came back because he felt he heard a message from the Holy Spirit. Second, Nat Turner did not kill Samuel Turner, he died of another cause. Also, during the rebellion Nat was under the house of Thomas Moore not Samuel Turner. However, the film does capture some accuracies. Nat Turner was in fact a talented young boy. According to Christopher Klein, Turner told Ruffin Gray in a jailhouse interview, that when he was three or four years old, he could provide details of events that occurred before his birth. His astonished mother and others took the comments as signs that he was a prophet and “intended for some great purpose.” The young slave showed “uncommon intelligence” and was taught to read and write. His deeply religious grandmother nurtured his spiritual development. “To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed” Also, the scene is the movie where Nat Turner took a solar eclipse in 1831 as a sign is correctly