HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: William Lloyd Garrison, Nat Turner, Elijah Parish Lovejoy

• School: University of Houston
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1376
• Professor: Hopkins Kelly

Document Summary

Cotton is the most vital crop in the nation due to southern economics from slavery. Slavery would be the key to the southern way of life in terms of their economics and revenue. But the slaves themselves are going to continue to resist their enslavement. Outsiders would be involve in this slave rebellion. He"s a literate slave, as most of the majority of slave is illiterate. Also a religious slave, a preacher in the slave community. Most slaves look up to him because of his untypical advantages. From his owner, turner was determined to change as a slave. He began to organized a rebellion of slaves,(a quick one day rebellion). But the southerners are forever concerned about the slave"s resistance. Turner and couple of slaves began the revolt by entering his masters home and kill the families inside the home.