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This project is about Famous Slave Rebellions. The project will describe the Famous Slave rebellions and who led them.It will show how certain people who have either tried or succeed at leading a rebellions or rebelling.
The information was gathered from sites all over the web but, I did NOT use Wikipedia. I also used government websites you can check those out on my bibliography on page six.
This project hopefully will demonstrate that people love their place they call home so much they went against the government for their community.
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Many people ask why slaves rebelled. Well, first off they were treated unfairly . They were whipped punished in very bad ways. Second they ignored slave humanity. They were not feed
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During these times these time there were a lot of good leaders. Nat turner had a sight of white and black people fighting. As life went one he had more messages from god. Which lead him to rebelling. Another great rebellion is the Fredrick Douglas Rebellion Fredrick Douglass real name is Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was born in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818.Fredrick tried to escape lots of times. After his first attempt he went to jail .Fredrick Douglass made a lot of freedom speeches. He participated in the nation rehabilitation after the horrible war. President Grant suggest the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which was established in 1870, and kept state governments from vetoing a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” One of the Best know rebellion leaders is Abraham Lincoln .Well he really isn’t a rebellion leader he took a huge role in rebelling he played the biggest part. especially when he said” I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.” So because of these people we’re
The Life of a Slave Slavery a name known since the beginning of time but I will be focusing on the year of 1619 to 1865. When Africans first arrived at the colonial America and how they got there. They greatly influenced the lives throughout the thirteen colonies. People failed to realize they were humans just like them.
One leader can change how a region, or group of people think, but many leaders can make an entire country question itself. A group called the abolitionist did just this. The abolitionist held many leaders such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and many more. All of these people held specific qualities that set them apart as ideal leaders and spokespeople. One of these leaders was Harriet Tubman, born as a slave she had great initiative and courage as she not only escaped slavery but returned to plantations to sneak off more and more slaves.
This is the first time slaves united together to revolt and declare their independence/rights as part of the human race. Not to mention, this behavior was extremely unusual. The plantations are miles apart from one another making it impossible for slaves to communicate efficiently with one another. Also, only a handful of slaves were able to read and write, giving little leeway to interconnect through letters. Most slaves shared a mutual understanding of authority and boundaries with their master.
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. He was born in February of 1818 and died on February 20, 1895. He worked as a human rights activists and was the first African-American citizen to hold a high United States government rank. He worked to abolish slavery in the United states although the odds were against him. He was beaten for speaking about his views on slavery He was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped around the year 1838.
There was also Frederick Douglass, who strived to get slavery abolished and did everything in his power to do
Frederick Douglas was an African-American abolitionist, slave and writer. He was born in 1818 in Maryland and died in 1895 in Washington D.C. He was born a slave in Maryland, he escaped slavery in 1838. After escaping slavery, he worked as an abolitionist, wrote many works on anti slavery, and became famous for his speeches. He was noted by abolitionists as being as a counter example to slaveowner arguments that slaves did not have the mental capacity or intellect to function independently in an American society.
Former abolitionist leader, writer and orator, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Frederick learned to how to read at a young age and was a very smart boy growing up. It was obvious to him that being a slave was not his purpose in life. Douglass escaped from slavery when he was 20 years old and became an anti-slavery activist. As a reformer Douglass did many things to get the rights he believed African Americans needed.
In each rebellion different skills were utilized. In the Nat Turner Rebellion he believed, “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 (the eclipse of the sun last February) I should arise and prepare myself, and slay me enemies with their own weapons” (Baker 110). His knowledge of religion and visions was his skill required to know ‘when’ to tell the other slaves and act upon them. For Frederick Douglass, his skill was that he could communicate to the masses through his newspapers and therefore led to his traveling around the United States and Britain where he lectured on civil rights and social justice issues after he successfully escaped slavery life.
Fredrick Douglass broke the physical and mental chains of slavery, he devoted his life to helping others do the same. Born a slave in Maryland 1818 he grew up facing hunger, backbreaking work, and beatings. at age 20 he escaped from slavery and began life as a free man. A brilliant and powerful speaker, Fredrick traveled wildly, shared his story and spreading his anti slavery message. He wrote several books and a published a news paper that promoted equal rights for black people and for women.
Everyone has a magnificent story behind them. Some change the lives of others, and some just like to add to their own story, but everything they do can or may affect another human being or just simply everything around them. One generous person that impacted many is known as Frederick Douglass. This man did not only gain freedom for himself, but for all the other slaves that were in his same exact position.
During his rebellion, it was very hard for slaves and when his rebellion ended and whites got scared that there might be more rebellions so they tightened rules even more for slaves. The Nat Turner slave rebellion was made up of slaves that we tired of being treated badly so they
Throughout slavery there were many rebellion attempts, however when pit against the weapons of the slave owners it was an uphill battle. Many slaves were only able to use tools used for work and paired with the element of surprise in many rebellions, the slaves were able to kill their masters and some slaves were even able to escape, however the majority of the slave rebellions ended in the death or capture of the slaves. In Sankofa there was a slave rebellion. Before the rebellion took place, the slaves congregated and planned their attack. They had 10 machetes, 8 pitchforks, and 7 pickaxes.
Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass. Nat Turner. Sojourner Truth. Many people learn about these four courageous African Americans and their struggles for freedom, but many more Blacks pushed for freedom and made it.
Fredrick Douglass was born enslaved,but he escaped to freedom. He became an outspoken opponent of slavery and a civil rights advocate. He lectured widely and even published his own newspapers. In this excerpt, I have learned the most important event that occurred in his life and why its important, the reason why he compared the enslavers to criminals, and the reason why he wished to be an animal. First of all, Fredrick mentioned in the excerpt the most important event in his life and why it matters.
Slave life was wretched. Majority of slaves were treated disrespectfully and were considered property rather than human beings. Plantation Slaves were given a minimal amount of clothing food, just enough to barely survive. Many slaves endured dreadful beatings from their masters daily. They were prohibited to receive an education and those who were brave enough to pursue one were severely punished.