Daniel Fang Mr. Schwartz AP US History I 23 March 2009 Nat Turner’s Rebellion: An Inevitable Racial Bloodbath On October 2, 1800, slave Nancy Turner gave birth to a child, whom she named Nathaniel Turner. In the August of 1831, Nat Turner would rise up to lead the “bloodiest slave revolt in Southern history, one that was to have a profound and irrevocable impact on the destinies of Southern whites and blacks alike” (4). Steven B. Oates’ The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion details a racial bloodbath that unfolded in Southampton County in two stages, as rebel slaves murdered the whites then whites slaughtered blacks. The black rebellion was inevitable, and following the insurrection, the white backlash was inevitable as well. The Turner Rebellion was unavoidable due to the circumstances of the time.
Jesus R. Silva Government 1301 P.15 Professor Clark Human Traffacking From the 17th century until the 19th century, almost twelve million Africans were brought to the New World against their will to perform back-breaking labor under terrible conditions. The British slave trade was eventually abolished in 1807 (although illegal slave trading would continue for decades after that) after years of debate, in which supporters of the trade claimed that it was not inhumane, that they were acting in the slaves’ benefit, etc. The rationalizations and defenses given for slavery and the slave trade were absurd and self-serving. Slavery was a truly barbaric, and those who think that they can control what another group of people eat, where they sleep,
The fear of slave rebellion distracted both the Southern slaveholder and the Northern invader. The Confederate government never used them as soldiers, but it did make them go into labor brigades to build fortifications, dig latrines, and haul supplies. As the war went on, Southern manpower shortages became more of a problem. Slaves quickly took advantage of the situation, slowing down their pace of labor and not following orders, The South imposed a Cotton embargo and many Southerners believed they could persuade European intervention in the war by refusing to grow or give
What Lead to the Civil War. From the beginning of the United States, war was inevitable between the North and the South, over the issues of slavery. Ever since Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gins in 1790, the South has been on a completely different economic path from the North. In the 1850’s political developments, the Fugitive slave act, the Dread Scott decision, and the John Brown raid, eventually all drove the regions further and further apart. Even though the North and South tried to reconcile their differences on the issue of slavery by implementing compromises in the 1820’s and 1850’s, both attempts failed, leading up to the Civil War.
As the war progressed, it was no question the amount of damage the blockade had truly cost the South. With the Confederate economy shattered due to the large scale blockade, the Anaconda Plan diminished the means to receive resources in the South, all trading partners with other countries were severed, and strongly contributed to a Union Victory as it destroyed the South from within and shattered the lives of all Southerners, diminishing all hope of winning the war. President Lincoln first called for a large scale blockade six days after a Confederate bombardment at Fort Sumpter during the beginning of the Civil War. This idea was highly criticized by other generals and Union citizens due to the 3,000 plus miles of treacherous coastline and the belief in a quick victory. However, as the war progressed, Union forces grew strongly dependent on the blockade of Southern ports to cripple the South’s forces.
More than 2000 people were lynched or burned in the last two decades of the ninetieth century. Southern newspapers would advertise these executions, and even children would be taken to lynchings. People had their photographs taken with the victims. In the south =, where racial hatred remained a problem, black people’s new rights were protected by northern soldiers who remained after the Civil War. When these soldiers left in 1877, many state governments chose to persecute black people and limit their rights.
The state’s rights issue was embedded in the issue of slavery; this, would lead our nation to war. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act would begin to strike conflict within both the North and South (The American Mosaic). This act would constitutionally require Northerners to return runaway slaves to their slave owners. Forcing the north to put aside an issue that most felt was unjust and/or immoral and participate in it immediately. While at first Southerners were very happy with this compromise, the reaction of the north would infuriate them.
Quantrill was accompanied by over four hundred fifty guerillas and outlaws. Almost all the guerillas carried multiple six-shot revolvers. They robbed the banks and looted almost all the stores in town. Quantrill pulled several men from their homes, took them outside, and murdered them in front of there family. Sometimes if a child was old enough to carry a gun, Quantrill would do the same to them, right in front of their family.
“Mr. Gore told him that he would give him three calls, and that if he did not come out at the third call, he would shoot him.” Mr. Gore shot Demby and nothing was done about it. Other instances of slaves being killed were Mr. Thomas Lanman, who killed two slaves, one with a hatchet. Another was Mrs. Hicks who broke a sixteen year old girl’s nose and breastbone killing because she was slow to move. And Mr. Beal Bondly who shot one of Colonel Lloyd’s slaves for accidently wandering onto his property.
The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. The increase in murders finally resulted in a backlash among Southern elites who viewed the Klan's excesses as an excuse for federal troops to continue occupation. The organization declined from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed by President Ulysses S. Grant's prosecution and enforcement under the Civil Rights Act of 1871. In 1915, the second Klan was founded, it preached racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. Some local groups took part in lynchings, attacks on private houses and public property, and other violent activities.