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What if other slaves chose to rebel similar to Turner’s plan and cause a pandemonium among the whites? There is no humanity in slavery or mercy upon the slaveholder’s soul. Turner’s acceptance for the crimes proved to be truthful. For example, the author obtained permission of the Jailor to visit Turner and was willing to share his free confessions of the origin for the slave’s movement. Turner explained his crimes in expressive details honestly to Thomas Gray, which showed the form of the document to be accurate as he stated, “Sir, you have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it, to do so I must go back to the days of my infancy and even before I was born” (6). Therefore,
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