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
from bondage in the Bible. major rebellion city of Charleston. Light houses on fire and ambush the people who came to put out the fire. betrayed and hung

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859 -was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia

The Creole case 1841- slaves took over a ship

The Underground Railroad
-The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada
-move at night.
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
box.
-Margaret Garner a slave who ran away and was caught killed her daughter
-John Parker bought his freedom
-Reverend John wrote letters on slavery
-William Still "The Father of the Underground Railroad, 60 slaves a month escape interviewing each person kept careful records, including a brief biography and the destination of each person
-Harriet Tubman 70 people never caught. became a spy, scout, and nurse for the Union Army.