Nat Turner's Rebellion Analysis

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In 1962, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy famously said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." When compared to the disturbances on the UC Berkeley Campus one must consider the idea. Were these political-protests turned violent necessary? Or is there a legal alternative to promote greater change within America?

This same comparison is made by Michael Coard in his article about the 185th Anniversary of Nat Turner’s rebellion. He criticizes the American justice system by contrasting the supreme courts arbitrary law’s in 1830 with the killing of police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas, both of which occurred in the month of July 2016. The author (Coard) gives the reader an insight on how these killings could be potentially justified by listing off the names of innocent Americans who were killed by police offers who weren’t indicted for their ‘crimes’. This list consisted of people such as Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, and Eric Garner. Incidentally, if these …show more content…
He refused this name because of the idea that he was an African who could never be truly owned. Nat’s father was a slave that had escaped with Nat was young, and Nat’s grandmother had been captured while she was in Ghana and shipped to America at the age of 13. Despite this, she was a member of an infamously rebellious group known as the Coromantee that fought against European and American enslavement. The rebellion had such a strong influence that a law was proposed in 1765 to ban their imports into the country because they were not passive enough. Although, this law was never made official since they were excellent
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