we grow up here knowing the story of nat turner. >> after all, nat turner's story begins in southamptonounty before it reverberates across the country and through the ages till today. >> till then, we remain steadfast, ready to strike at the moment of the lord's call. we'll destroy them all. >> he probably had a genius iq, but it was encased within a body that was supposed to be nothing. >> bruce turner is a great-great-great grandson of nat turner. he says nat, born in 1800, learns to read the bible and by his teens is preaching to his fellow slaves. >> he had a very loud, commanding, and fiery voice to where he could mesmerize them when he would stare at them with his eyes. ♪ >> it's around this time turner is baptized in a pond on the person family property. did he know your family? >> he knew the family. my great-great-grandfather, john person, owned the land. >> mark person is maurice's cousin. your family, they were slave owners. >> yeah. they did own slaves. but a lot of the neighbors didn't like john person 'cause he was too kind to the slaves sometimes. but he said, "hey, it's

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and insecurity of the term revolt had created called for the gradual emancipation of the slave nat turner as rebellion helped heighten tensions that exploded when the civil war broke out some modern day thinkers though have suggested that enter jackson the president who invokes the insurrection act to put down turner's rebellion would have avoided the civil war had he still been in power at least one great historical mind has claimed this and then gesture that a little bit later he would have said this is. leaving aside the fact that jackson died nearly 20 years before the war began it's actually not that outlandish to suggest he would have avoided the civil war considering he owned slaves themself and had a long history of vehement racism jackson probably wouldn't have bothered to fight it. i'm sorry as it is to imagine a present united states refusing to stand up to white supremacists engaging in insurrectionary activity. since $831.00 the act has been used over a dozen times including several that have involved putting down labor uprising there was andrew jackson 2nd invocation $1034.0

dubois, nat turner, frederick douglass, malcolm x and others, and he mocked the fact that on the uncle toms like george washington carver and booker t. washington received attention. he took a seattle high school audience by surprise in 1967 when he told them the very first man to die for the war of of independence in this country was a black man named crispus attucks. very first man, yes. there was applause and carmichael went on, "he was a fool. .eah he died for white folk country. he should have been fighting white folk instead of dying for white folk. that has been our history as a black people, we have always been dying for white folk." the 1976 bicentennial brought greater attention from the mainstream to crispus attucks and black participation in the revolution more broadly as well as increasing opportunities to disseminate interpretations of attucks and other black heroes in schools and the ever-expanding mass media. sometimes commercialization was involved, as with this commemorative bottle of 100 proof jim beam bourbon. in 1998, the u.s. mint featured crispus attucks on a com

the act was a lot more historically consequential in august of 831 slave preacher by the name of nat turner led a rebellion of his fellow slaves against their masters for 2 days his small force traveled from farm to farm slaughtering whites and freeing blacks at most stops the rebel force grew at one point reaching around 40 recruits over 2 days they killed at least $55.00 whites wow that's more than hydroxide chloroquine before they could reach an armory to stock up on weapons the insurrection act was called and troops quickly intervened to end the rebellion for decades to come nat turner would be blamed for weakening the abolitionist movement and uli squandering its prospects with violence if only he had tried to emancipate himself through peaceful means like voting. but the historian eric foner disagrees according to him far from killing the debate not turner opened many whites arguing mainly from the fear and insecurity of the term revolt had created called for the gradual emancipation of the slaves that ters rebellion helped heighten tensions that exploded when the civil war broke out

. -- nat turner lead i. both died for their efforts.e and hangs as ominously over the nation today as ever at home on the plantation yesterday. a major stronghold of the black muslims, for more on that story, here is bob. >> according to the muslims, the white man is the devil, the all people. he hates black men, and black men should hate him in return. he also teaches his followers that christianity has failed black men. the american government has failed black men. the muslim solution, a separate black fate. right after world war i, a negro leader named marcus garvey organize a campaign based on the same principles. one of the men who opposed the movement recalls conditions that led hundreds of thousands of negroes to join the garvey parade. >> they had come out of the war fought and died and come into the southern communities where they met a violence of racial discrimination. many soldiers were the victims of police brutality. some were lynched. therefore, there was widespread frustration and discord and discontent among negroes. ga

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