Slave Rebellion Research Paper

When Europeans took thousands of Africans from their native land against their will, one can only expect resistance. Through the struggle, enslaved Africans formed slave rhymes, stories, and planned revolts to fight against the tyranny of the slave owners. Enslaved Africans also used forms of rebellion to out smart their masters and sometimes used violence as redemption for their inhumane treatment. (1)It was also that the arising from the former; industrialization and urbanization were phenomena that made the control of slaves more difficult; and, perhaps most important, economic depression, bringing increased hardships, sharpened tempers, and more widespread leasing of slaves, induced rebelliousness. It has been shown that the presence of
Prosser lead a rebellion in which the slaves who were tired of the torture and despair were to go forth and rebel. Vesey was a free black man who sought to rebel, and who planned to steal weapons from the Charleston arsenal and try to free all the black house slaves in Charleston, who would then murder their owners. However, whites found out about the plan before it could commence and hung Denmark Vesey and thirty-four of his co-conspirators. This again instilled fear into the minds of whites. Now it was Nat turner who orchestrated the last of the three resistance attempts and the most successful. (2)On August 20, 1831 he was able to kill his master, which he then started moving plantation to plantation, trying to kill more white slave owners. In all, he and his followers had killed fifty-five whites, but eventually Turner and his followers were all murdered but not without instilling fear into Southern white slave owners, along with the sheer thoroughness of the violence that chilled the hearts of even the most confident slave-owners. With all these acts and new ideas of rebellion came the period of the Haitian slave revolution, which was a period of brutal conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the elimination of slavery and the establishment of Haiti as the first republic ruled by people of African ancestry. Although hundreds of rebellions occurred in the New World during the centuries of slavery, only the revolt on Saint-Domingue, which began in 1791, was successful in achieving permanent independence under a new nation, for its regarded as a defining moment in the history of Africans in the New World.