Against Racism and The Rebellion

“Those who quietly accepted their subservience deserved to remain slaves” (Wright, 102) a quote from an insurgent, Denmark Vesey. Denmark was a fascinating man in control of the uprising in Charleston. His uprising was one of the first calls to action against the ruling class in the 1820s that soon got crushed because of the panic of the state. The way it is seen to many people blinded, is that when you start to affect the pockets of the ruling class, they would want to stop the cause so they can continue to make money and keep the greed growing. However this did not stop from any other former slaves to actually retaliate.




Later in 1833 the hearing of Nat Turner that led a revolt against his bosses, his insurrection led to many other African Americans to revolt against such inhuman thoughts of black people being lower than the white Elite. Thomas Gray, a slaveholder, documented the confessions of Turner’s cause of revolt but many “...considered the document tainted because Gray was a white slaveholder, because he accurately saw profit in his sale of Tuner’s “confessions” and because he regarded Turner as a gloomy fanatic” (Wright, 108). No matter what people thought that Turner’s actions were bloody, he did find a way to fight for his freedom ‘cause of the decline of the economic status and this led Turner to use direct action in which he organize with other four slaves to revolt. Turner was called a fanatic because he would read the bible and preach that slavery was wrong and his backup was the written words of God. So this made people think that his excuse was god so he could kill 60 people and justify that enslavement was wrong. All of the insurrections that happen in those years led to one thing for sure, freedom costs people’s lives and a form of resisting which the ruling class that feared the people getting together is no different to another period in time like the 60s. The ruling class has a name for it too, do you know what is called or reminded you of?



Clotilda in 1860 might be the last slave-ship and that civil war ended “slavery”, does that mean racism and enslavement ended? So 40 acres and a mule is freedom?