Emmitt Faulkner and Matt DavisRadical Abolitionism

Gabriel Prosser

Gabriel Prosser was the first person to give the idea of a slave rebellion. He was going to launch it on August 30th 1800. they had to postpone it due to rain and when they did two other slaves told on them to there slave owner.Mosby Sheppard was the one who told the slave owner and then they called the Virginia state militia and Prosser escaped down river and another slave told them where he went for a reward that he ended up not getting all of.

Prosser Importance

• This attempt of a slave rebellion put thought in other slaves and fear in slave owners

• It set the stage for Nat Turners rebellion and it gave a plan and ideas for multiple other slaves for a way to escape

Gabriel Prosser

Gabriel Prosser was the first person to give the idea of a slave rebellion. He was going to launch it on August 30th 1800. they had to postpone it due to rain and when they did two other slaves told on them to there slave owner.Mosby Sheppard was the one who told the slave owner and then they called the Virginia state militia and Prosser escaped down river and another slave told them where he went for a reward that he ended up not getting all of.

Reasons for Nat Turners Slave Rebellion

Nat turner claims that he got a sign from god telling him to lead a revolt. Then there was a eclipse and he thought it was a super natural event happening again telling him to lead a revolt.

What Nat Turner actually did

• Nat turner killed his slave owner, Joseph Travis and his entire family. Eventually he also killed 50 other white people. The government sent in 3,000 people in a state militia to take out him and his group of people and Nat was not found for about 6 weeks but when he was he was executed.

Impact of Nat Turner

• This made people think that they can not free slaves or they will kill all of us whites.

• It put the idea in there head to put them back to Africa but they would have no one and nothing.

• This also put fear thought the South thinking that there slaves will do this so the owners punished there slaves much more brutally

Kansas-Nebraska Act(1854)

• Spearheaded by Senator Stephen Douglass • Included the idea of Popular Sovereignty –

the majority should get to pick whether they get slavery or not

• As a result, a lot of New Englanders migrated to Kansas to vote against it

What is Bleeding Kansas?

• Bleeding Kansas was a conflict between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of Kansas becoming a slave state

• There were no armies involved, but there were constant conflicts

• It was a period between 1850 and 1856 when northern and southern citizens fought over the new statehood of Kansas

• Both sides were violent, protested, voting fraud, and many other things to ensure victory

Continued…

• The term “Bleeding Kansas” was coined by Horace Greeley ( sweet name)

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 is what sparked the beginning of the fight

• People were upset because this nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Who is John Brown?

• John Brown was a strong abolitionist from New York. He participated in a “battle” in Bleeding Kansas.

• He led a rebellion in a town called Harper’s Ferry.

Harper’s Ferry

• On October 16, 1859, John Brown led an army (of 18 men) to a town called Harper’s Ferry.

• The goal was to instigate a rebellion in the south.

• “He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause.”

FAIL

• Less than 36 hours after the rebellion began, it was over.

• As a result, when he was captured and returned to the north, he was sentenced to execution.

• While some people thought he was crazy, some people admired his courage and zeal.

Work cited• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Prosser Aptheker, Herbert.

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• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASturnerR.htm Kyle Barker

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