Was Nat Turner's slave rebellion justified?

[arcadian]

Nat Turner (Nathaniel Turner, October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion that resulted in 60 deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern United States. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner's methodical slaughter of white civilians during the uprising makes his legacy controversial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner

[KG]

1. nope. slaves should sit back and hope their masters have a change of heart.

[sasquatch]

2. Yep, it killed Southern elites and that's never a bad thing

[fasttense]

3. Slavery was a very brutal practice mostly for the slave but sometimes for the master too.

If the master was afraid of his slaves attacking him then maybe he should not have taken part in such a brutal practice. The master did have choices, unlike the slave.

[Phoonzang]

4. If he had spared the women and children, it would have been alot more effective.

A wider, more organized rebellion like Louverture would have been better. All the rebellion resulted in was more repression. Let's see them put down an organized slave rebellion in a state where 70 percent of the population is slave.

[damntexdem]

7. Well, it seems that his master hadn't taught him political science, either.

Sometimes, one must just learn by doing, if on lives that long.

[Phoonzang]

8. You don't need an education to think something through.

I suppose he learned something though.

[cali]

9. uh, Turner was singularly intelligent and literate

He was also probably intermittently psychotic and undoubtedly suffered from delusions.

[rvablue]

5. Why don't you let us in on the details of your allegory? n/t

[damntexdem]

6. Yes, EVERY slave rebellion was justified.

And pardon his methods, but it seems that his 'owner' had happened to fail to teach him ethics. ;-)

[cali]

10. sorry, killing children is not justified.

And you obviously know very little about Turner. And ethics.

[malaise]

11. Agreed 100% n/t