Fires of Jubilee
The author, Stephen B. Oates described this book as a book that's adventurous and never ending. The authors purpose of this book was to bring back the past and tell us what we didn't know about the slave rebellion. Tell us what was actually happening behind the great battles that were lead by the Americans and the British, also the French. He wrote this book in many different ways, and ideas. Sometimes the story will jump into another subject that is relating to the other subjects. He described the book as he was a slave himself. How the slaves brought America into a new era. How that blacks were not as week as the whites think they were. Also that not all blacks are stupid, especial Nat Turner who turned out, was the smartest black person in Virginia. The author just wanted us to know, that slaves are supposed to be treated the same way as other people and also the whites. The story was first based on the year 1780s and it ends at the year 1831. The story is based in the southern part of Virginia along the North Carolina border; lay a little-known back-water called Southampton County. The story is mostly places in gigantic fields and land of plantation owned by the rich whites. Also near many woods and
And I think the author wrote it pretty well and it was easy for me to understand. It's because he could read the past, even tell everybody what had happened even before he was born. 1 big river called the Nottoway River and the small river called Tarrara Creek. This insurrection severely frightened the southern slave owners that it could happen to them. Oates describes Nat Turner as a boy, as a man, and the effect of his death on society around him. Because of his really good English he was really fast at reading the bible. Where his mom over there worked inside the house helping out Elizabeth and the other turner family members. Well it all starts out telling us about a lady named Nancy. However, Nat's then current master died and was put into slavery by Samuel Turner, his old master's son. As a child he had been told that because of his intelligence, he would be spared as a slave. In the countless years that African Americans were oppressed before and during Nat's life, an immeasurable amount had been murdered or brutally tortured. The next to plot for an insurrection was Vessey. A servant leaked information and Vessey and his fellow conspirators were hanged. mysterious swamps behind most of the plantation fields. It taught me a lot of stuff I never even knew.
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