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Nat Turner: A Hero Or Hero?

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Nat Turner was considered a hero to the black slaves because he saved and took them from where they were staying in a white people’s home and Tuner killed the white American’s to save all slaves that were captured and lived and work for the white people. Turner was also considered a murder to the white American’s because he was killing them and because he was black so he was both a hero to the black American’s and a murder to the white American’s because that made war between the white and black American’s. Nat Turner helped other black slaves escape the homes whites for some many years it turned into blood bath’s for Nat Turner and The other black American’s and for the White American’s to do the same but if they didn’t want the slaves murdered he …show more content…

but it was ok for the white American’s to murder or sell the slaves two wrongful actions don’t make one side better than the other side in my eyes but that just might opinion since watching this video on Nat Turner. I don’t think Nat Turner a hero or a murder I believe he was just following his beliefs and heart and thought he was doing the right thing to help his people get freed from being slaves to the white American’s or slaves to anyone but it turned out to be a bad thing to do because it made a worse war between him and the other black American’s in the world and made the white American’s be as worse as he was before he was sentenced to be killed for his actions he was able to tell his story of his actions. I can’t say I believe the interpretations from what other’s said what happened and what Nat Turner had did for his the other slaves I think he could of just saved the slaves but not murder the white American’s just because they were selling or killing the slaves but he did what he felt was right and I don’t blame him for following his

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