The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion By: Stephen B. Oats Dual Credit U.S. History 2nd-Nine Week Book Report By Taina Ferrer Shoemaker High School December 12‚ 2013 Stephen B. Oates‚ author of The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and he was an expert in 19th-century American history. This book was an excellent read that would keep anyone on the edge of their seat the entire time they read the
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The Fires of Jubilee This book by Stephen B. Oates describes a sad and tragic story about a man named Nat Turner who was born into slavery and his fight to be free. Ironically‚ his willingness to do anything‚ even kill‚ to gain his freedom leads to his own demise. From the title of this book‚ “The Fires of Jubilee‚” a reader can truly grasp the concept that there is trouble‚ chaos‚ and mayhem brewing in the month of August. This story was not only riveting‚ but also one that
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The book The Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates‚ gives an account of the slave insurrection that took place in 1831 in Southampton County‚ Virginia‚ led by the self-proclaimed prophet Nat Turner. Oates gives an historic account of the events that led up to the deadliest insurrection before the civil war. Oates relies on the evidence of Nat Turner’s confessions‚ trial documents and other related material; but he does not give a fair account of the Southampton insurrection. The problem lies within
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The Fires of Jubilee In the Fires of jubilee‚ author Stephen B. Oates tells the story of a slave who led a revolt to end the white supremacy in the South. This book is a non - fiction book and describes the history of slaves who rebelled against the white supremacy. The author sets images of story for reader to understand the purpose of the book. The author’s main purpose is to describe in detail about the slave rebellions in 1830s. He also explains the culture of that time and
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The Fire of Jubilee Santo Domingo. In 1799 two white guards were killed while transporting slaves through Nat’s hometown‚ Southampton County. The first attempted large scale insurrection on American soil was the Gabriel Prosser conspiracy in Richmond in 1800. Gabriel and his accomplices planned to burn Richmond‚ and take the governor hostage. His plans were spoiled before he had an opportunity to carry them out‚ but the event contributed dramatically to the uneasiness of many Southerners. Nat toiled
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Thien Le May 30‚ 2015 History 1301-07 The Fires of Jubilee Book Review This book was written by Stephen B. Oats. He is known as an award winning Civil War era expertise. Stephen has written sixteen novels and The Fires of Jubilee is one of those sixteen. Stephen wrote this biography of Nat Turner about his notorious rebellion. Nat Turner believed that he was the “chosen one” by the Lord. Funny as it is‚ his name Nathaniel means “the gift of the God” in Hebrew. Nat Turner was convinced that deep
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Nat Turner is the most famous and most controversial slave rebel on American history. He was living in the innocent season of his life‚ in those carefree years before the working age of twelve when a slave boy could romp and run about the plantation with uninhibited glee. Nat in his young years cavorted about the home place as slave children did generally in Virginia. He was first lived in Turner’s house‚ who owned a modest plantationin a remote neighborhood "down county" from Jerusalem. His daytime
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Chelcie Tjoeng Ms. Pacheco English III/Period 5 30 August 2017 Weekly Book Report #2 Bergin‚Virginia. H2O. Illinois: Sourcebooks Fire Inc.‚ 2014. 332. Number of pages read this week: 22 Characters: Ruby Morris‚ Simon Morris‚ Becky Morris‚ Caspar McCloud Plot: (Describe the plot in one paragraph.) Ruby has a huge crush on Caspar McCloud and ever since that incident‚ Ruby has gotten the opportunity to get closer to him. Caspar confesses that he has feelings for Ruby too and they start to get closer
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The book I am reading for my book report is Catching Fire‚ the second part of the Hunger Games. The Austhor of Catching Fire is Susanne Collins. The book Catching Fire is a very good book‚ it emphasis’s more on the characters rather than the plot. Catching fire has many different scenes in many different places‚ but two of the zones are important for the characters‚ which is District 12 and the Guarter Guell arena. There are 8 important characters in Catching Fire. Katniss Everdeen‚ is the
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Gates Of Fire Book Report Title: Gates Of Fire LCpl Yaccarine A. Jared Author: Steven Pressfield Publisher: Turtleback Books Published: 1999 This book is about the Spartans warrior culture and how it ties into the Marine Corps values‚ and the present day warrior culture of our Marine Corps. My opinion on this book is that it is a great and interesting read that captures the attention of the reader and ties in ideally to our Marine Corps values. It depicts perfectly on what it is to be a
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