What Is Nat Turner's Injustice In The Civil War?

The injustice of slavery in Virginia comes to a head in 1831. A man named Nat Turner, a proclaimed preacher some believed had special abilities to see what it is to become of the future. Reeked fear upon slave-owners, women and children. A revenge for atrocities no living soul should ever endure. Some believe led to the Civil War.

Nat Turner and six rebels went on a killing spree in Southampton, Virginia. The started the revolt in the middle of the night and continued the killing for 36 hours. As the hours passed, more rebels joined the massacre, at one point they split off into groups. The rebels were eventually caught, but Nat went into hiding for nine weeks until he was captured. Overall, they killed 55 people including babies, women and
At age 21, Nat ran away only to be told by mysterious voice to “return to the service of my (his) earthly master.” The second time, he saw lights coming from the sky and prayed for the reason behind them. One day while he was out in the corn fields, he found blood and then again in the woods. The thoughts in his mind said they were hieroglyphics characters and numbers and they represented figures he seen in heaven. On May 12, 1828, Turner had his third vision: "I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first... And by signs in the heavens that it would make known to me when I should commence the great work, and until the first sign appeared I should conceal it from the knowledge of men; and on the appearance of the sign... I should arise and prepare myself and slay my enemies with their own weapons."

Nat had many things to consider, in 1830 he already had a wife and child. He was consistently being threaten by Southampton’s other evil within its county line and it was called the “second middle passage”. The “second middle passage” not only destroyed families but also served as a psychological scare tactic to keep people in line and break up resistance. Thousands of slaves were sold out of Southampton County during the early 19th century. Living with the knowledge that his family could be taken away at any moment surely shaped Nat Turner’s outlook, as well as that of the rebels who fought with