The whites believed that the violent revolts originated as a unique movement led by charismatic figures. People such as Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vessey and others rebelled against slavery in order to give blacks a voice. It may not have been the most peaceful approach, but someone would have done it. Full-scale slave rebellions like the ones planned by Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Gabriel Prosser were not common among the African American community in the United States in the nineteenth century. The brutal outcome of the Turner revolt was graphically documented in the Constitutional Whig. It stated t

The church taught slaves that God wanted them to hold a lower level in society. This can be seen in a narrative by Lundsford Lane, a North Carolina slave. The church also taught that "servants be obedient to your masters" or then they would spend an eternity in Hell if they did not perform their daily tasks. Church sermons usually described beatings and lashings as a correction. It did not matter if the slave deserved it or not, the church's justification was that God wills it. The revolts revealed a degree of anger on the part of black slaves about their situation that contradicted what white Southerners said about blacks and the slave system. Though the most successful slaves were ones who chose to work within the white system of law and order, like Frederick Douglass, leaders of slave rebellions accomplished a different feat by keeping whites on the defensive. Yet at the same time, these revolts demonstrated the weakness of the Black position. Frightened whites were often worse masters than complacent whites, and slaves had no rights according to th

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