Jeremy+Chittavong

=Name: I am a plantation owner that goes by the name of Wah Ching and I am 34 years old. I am currently a resident of Charleston, South Carolina. I am happily married and have four children. The crops that I plant are rice and cotton. Currently I own about 500 slaves and continuing to collect more. Here is a picture of my home and cotton crop.=

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=HIYA= =A page from the journal of= = =

Entry Number 1: Nat Turner
=Dear Journal,=

==I recently heard heard of a man named Nat Turner. They say that he was a preacher of a church in Southampton, Virginia. So one day he thought that god showed him a vision that said "the first would be the last and the last would be the first."(http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/nnat.stm) On August 21, 1832, he and a few other slaves stole their owners weapons and went on a killing spree that ended up killing about 50-60 whites including their masters and family in a period of 24 hours. On the following day many other slaves heard of Turners doings so they decided to join in with him. The local militia found out about their plans and they took them to confront and capture them but Nat escaped. They then found Turner in October and tried him. He was them hung and skinned November 11, 1831.(http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0849756.html)==

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==I am very glad that they finally stop him because I didn't know when my slaves would go and help them. Luckily they also hung the other fugitives that helped Nat kill the other white men. Who knows, Nat turner could have trained other men to do as he did but at different times. So right now I am feeling very terrified of all my slaves. I have yet to heard of someone doing the same actions like Nat Turner.==

Entry Number 2:Harper's Ferry Raid
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==The people in town has been talking about a man that planned to assist slaves runaway and attack the slave holders named John Brown. They say that he was ready to attack in 1858 but had to postpone the attack because one of his followers planned to reveal the it, so Brown went into hiding. John then rented a farm in Maryland across the Potomac River after his plan was delayed for about one year. Most of the men that he recruited changed their minds about helping Brown and some either moved away or thought that the plan wouldn't even work. An abolitionist name Henry Highland Garnet really didn't have faith in the plan and thought that the slaves were unprepared. Brown attacked on October 16 with an army of 21 men. Five of his men were slaves including one man named Dangerfield Newby who wanted to rescue his wife and sixteen whites, two including Brown's sons. He and his men walked across the Potomac and reached the town at 4am. Once they've got there, they cut all the telephone wires and first captured the armory and arsenal. They then captured Hall's Rifle Works, the governments supplier of weapons, hoping that more slaves would join them when they gathered 60 men as hostage. The local militia pinned Brown and his men down.==



==I think that what they did was kind of wrong but good at the same time. It was wrong because they didn't really have to hold that many people as hostage and that they cut the telephone wires off. It was good because they he and the slaves are finally standing up for whats right and fighting for their freedom. John and his men could have just keep less people as hostage and take less men to help him.(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html)==

Entry Number 3:Harriet Tubman
=Dear Journal,=

==All the men in town were talking about a women named Harriet Tubman and also went "Moses". Many of them say that when she was about to be sold as a slave, she ran away. She then married a free man named John Tubman and took his last name. When she ran away, she gained help from some friendly white women. She soon made it to Pennsylvania, then moved to Philadelphia, she found a job and began to save money. "Moses" returned back Maryland where she escorted her sister and her sister's children to freedom. Then after that she returned farther down south to escort her brother and two other men.==

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==I think that what Harriet did was wrong because all the money us slave owners spent on buying the slaves, she just going to try and take them away from us. Many other plantation and slave owners probably feel the same as I felt. I spent about $50,000 on purchasing my slaves and property and so far only made back about half the amount I spent. So if someone like Harriet Tubman came to my property and stole all my slaves to help them become free, I would have posted up a poster. The poster would state "Harriet Tubman wanted dead or alive, if dead $20,000 reward, if alive $5,000 reward."==

==3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States? Yes, I think that the Civil War was the only way to end slavery because the plantation owners wouldn't have stopped unless they went to war.==

==4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past? Kind of, because there are still a few racial groups still around in America. One known group that involves all white people is call the "KKK".==