The Silent Rebellion On the morning of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner and his followers rose in rebellion against the master class. The mob killed the family to whom Turner belonged and rampaged through Southampton killing nearly sixty whites (Stampp 278). Why was this rebellion one of the few organized attempts to protest slavery? What prevented slaves from overthrowing their masters when they sometimes had over one hundred slaves to one master? The relative lack of slave revolts …showed first 75 words of 3248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3248 total…not revolt due to the lack of rebellious influence, the master’s continuous work to keep them obedient, and the strength of the black family. In consequence, 100 years after slavery came to North America, 184,000 African Americans joined the army of the United States. The Civil War was the only way that blacks were able to display their disgust with slavery. How long would this silent rebellion have continued if the Civil War had never occurred?