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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Oates begins the book with a thorough biography of Turner. He makes a real effort to show what lead a man to commit the actions he did. Nat was born on October 17‚ 1800 in Southampton County‚ Virginia. His mother Nancy was brought to America in 1795. The man who purchased her was Benjamin Turner‚ a wealthy tidewater planter. Nancy married a slave whose name is not known‚ and gave birth to Nat. Interestingly‚ she tried to kill Nat rather than see him grow up to be a slave. By the time he was
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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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them and would help them through their struggles day by day. Two of the most known slaves that incorporated God and religion in their lives were Nat Turner and William Wells Brown. Slaves invented their own “source of religion” and these brave men helped develop it and spread it throughout the slave communities. Unlike most of the other slaves‚ Nat Turner knew
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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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were symbolized in D.W. Griffith’s birth of a nation movie‚ the new birth of a nation portrays Negros as survivors of oppression by the white man. An important figure in the fight of freedom for the blacks and previously enslaved persons was Nat Turner. Nat Turner is the most famous and
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Throughout African Americans enslavement there were many resists and revolts‚ slaves wanted freedom and abolition to slavery. Many slaves rebelled‚ revolted‚ and did everything they possibly could to be free from their masters. Slaves like Denmark Vesey‚ Nat Turner‚ Charles Deslondes‚ and many more have revolted‚ rebelled‚ and conspired to abolish slavery. The enslaved African Americans revolted either individually or in groups to fight for their freedom. Slaves in the U.S were very persistent and used many
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Election of 1824 Jackson – president v.s. popular man JQ Adams Against general Jackson 土耳其 Clay no result pass to congress Jackson with army against politics (J.Q. Adams work with Clay) > Clay become secretary of state Jackson won the popular‚ but does not matter = According to Jackson and is supporters the election of 1824 was known as the A) Corrupt Bargain *Election of 1828 Jackson predict that he will won Jackson vs Adams Jackson won On this day in 1806
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Turner’s confession projects the voice of the slave population exploited and resentful‚ and the desire of slaves to be free. Those thoughts were from a slave who was able to be freed from the ignorance instilled by whites; he denied the validity of the principles of slaves from the Bible‚ and began to openly question the validity and truth of other provisions as well (Gray 259). Turner bent over backwards to avenge and liberate Southern slaves who
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a belief that some strongly believed in. There were abolitionists like Frederick Douglass who preached abolition in a nonviolent manner. On the other end of the spectrum there were abolitionists such as Nat Turner who took his abolitionist beliefs and expressed them violently. In 1831‚ Nat Turner led a violent slave rebellion‚ killing over 60 people‚ including many women and children. Although violent acts in response to slavery were criticized‚ it can be said that without these acts‚ the issue of
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