Stephen+Gary

=Name: Stephen Urkel= =I am twenty-seven years old. I was born April 21, 1833. I live in upper Columbia, SC. I live as an assistant to a slave master however I am an abolitionist. I think that slavery is unnecessary and that everybody should be treated equal. Preston Brookes was a good friend of my father's and Nat Turner is all the books about rebellion that I have read and my great grandfather was one of the men that lived during the time in this rebellion.= =A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1:Preston Brooks was a representative from South Carolina, he was born in the Edgefield District on August 5 1819. He gradutated from the University of South Carolina. He participated in the Mexican War as Captain. He was elected as Democrat to the thiry-third and thirty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1853 to July 15, 1856. He resigned, when he was about to be expeled for assaulting Charles Sumner.==

=I think the attack on Charles Sumner was somewhat neccessary because he offended Preston Brookes' relavtive. However, I think he should've talked to Sumner about it right after the slandering was made. This would've probably kept Preston Brooks in the House of Representatives and kept him out of jail in the process.=

==Entry Number 2:Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 in South Hampton County, Virginia. When Nat was a young chid people overheard him describing events that had happened before his time. This along with his intelligence made him seem like a prophet to other people "inteneded for some greath purpose". Turner had ran away from his overseer, but came back after thirty days because he had a vision in which a Spirit had told him to "return to the service of his earthly master." The following year his master, Samuel Turner, died and Nat was sold to Thomas Moore.== ==Three years later Nat had another vision. He had saw lights in the sky and prayed to find out what they meant. Then "...while laboring in the cornfield, i discovered drops of blood on the corn, as though it were dew from heaven, and I communicated it to many, both white and black, in the neighborhood and then I found on the leaves in the woods hieroglyphic characters and numbers, with the form of men in differnet attitudes, portrayed in blood, and representing figures I have seen before in the heaves.== ==Later Nat Turner had a vision in which a Spirit had told him to fight the "Spirit". In February 1831 he saw an eclipse, and Nat thought that it was a sign to begin planning the rebellion. He told four other slaves and they planned to attack on July 4. However, Turner got sick and the rebellion was canceled. At 10 a.m. Turner and six other men killed his master. After that, they went from house to house killing whites.==

==In this rebellion i kind of understand where Nat is coming from, seeing how he was having visions in which Spirits were telling him what to do. However, I don't think that killing was the right thing, I highly doubt that a Spirit would induce killing of any kind. I also think that he probably didn't even have any visions. He could have been having dreams of what he has had on his concious.==

Entry Number 3:South Carolina Secession
The people of SC in convention met on April 25, 1852. They declared that the frequent violations of the contistution, justified the State in withdrawing from the Federal Union. In the year of 1765 a portion of the British Empire undertook to maek laws for teh government of their portion composed of the thirteen American Colonies. A struggle for the right for self-governing starte, which endeed up, on the 4th of July in a Declaration. This states that, as a free and independent state, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, and contract alliances, etc... They then declared that wherever government gets destructive, it is the right of the people to change or get rid of it, and institute a new government. They then declared the government of Great Britain destructive and then said that any connections between them and the State of Great Britain, is ought to be, and totally dissolved. After the Decleration of Independence each of the 13 states adopted a constitution for itself. and appointed officers for the administration of government in all departments. In 1778 they entered a League called the Articles of Confederation.

I think that it is ironic how they gave a free independent state the power to control alliances. The congress should already know that the states want freedom from Britain which is there so called "alliance". Then they dissolved the connections with Britain so that the states would be free. Also i did not know that this is how the thirteen colonies got involved into the Articles of Confederation. It is as if this was all planned out. ====

Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? One's understanding of slavery affects their understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s because, they might can relate to what some people did such as when Charles Sumner gave his speech.==

==2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States? Slavery might be condoned in the United States because some people might need help with something but are to lazy to do it so they could take there problem to the white house in Washington, DC and it might make sense to the congress and the president and it might condone slavery in the Unite States.==

==4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past? Some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past are how they treat people depending on their color.==