Nat Turner: Right or Wrong? (We had to read up on the case of Nat Turner's Rebellion and decide whether her was right or wrong, and argue our points)

Nat Turner was a slave in the county of Southampton, Virginia. In 1831, he headed an insurrection against the whites, leading several slaves in a bloody massacre that lasted just over 24 hours. The men traveled from house to house in Southampton, slaughtering the people in each house and at various points gaining new rebels and building the numbers for his cause. It easy to see why this incident was met with such horror. Nat Turner and …

…phenomenon peculiar to Southampton County, but one that was widespread and came about 30 years later. It would be safe to assume that emancipation would have happened around the same time that it did regardless of whether or not Turner had murdered over 50 whites or not. The fact remains that Turner's rebellion ultimately hurt the slaves rather than helped them. One can thus only draw the conclusion that Turner should not have done what he did.