Angelina Grimke shows here how she has a great passion for the abolition of slavery. She starts off with the reminder that they are all one in Christ. It's as if she is saying " before you speak and condemn what I'm about to say, remember you're all Christianity.". To go the lengths of calling out to other women in attempt to persuade them of the immorality of slavery, you can tell she may have grown up despising slavery in her household. She see's all humans as equal both from other continents and American born. I agree with her that no one should have to be born into slavery which we all know was common in the 1800's. There were laws allowing for children of slave women to be born into slavery for the rest of their lives. I admire her tenacity to reach out to others whom would potentially disagree and condemn her for her suggestions of abolishing slavery. It takes a lot of guts to stand up for the rights of others during this time. Just goes to show how much of an impact slavery had on children growing up in households who condoned it.

My opinion for this passage would be that with his escape Nat at some point realized he would either be found and killed and or he was so mentally abused he didn't want to separate from his abuser as we see in some situations of abuse today. So, he went back but he went back with a plan to do unto his owner as his owner and other's had done unto other slaves. I'm not sure I would have gone back if I were far out enough to where I would be free.

I feel this passage is Nat Turners way of saying he finally found the perfect opportunity for revenge. It's so unfortunate that mental health definitely played a major role in the outcome of his rebellion. For years he was used, mistreated and abused both verbally and physically. He sought hope in God's will. He walked by faith as he knew that God would alert him as to when the time would come to avenge. He makes reference of a serpent being the white man just as God references the enemy as a serpent in the bible. In retrospect, Nat doesn't see himself as being a bad person for the actions he would take and had taken although others would say he was the serpent.

It's unfortunate that so many men, women, and children were murdered during this rebellion. However, it is quite common for all living things to become casualties of war when there is an act of "war". I don't agree fully with Nat Turner murdering so many individuals. Nevertheless, he may have seen his rebellion as an act of God because of the way he was treated from birth. Sometimes you have to put yourself in another's shoes to understand why they say what they say and to understand their actions.

Murder is condemned in the Bible but Nat felt God called upon him to rid the world of it's evils which so happened to be the many he killed. I think if the shoe were on the other foot and it had been us in present day in his shoes we may have done the same thing. The lengths an individual will go to for freedom can come in many forms when you have been mistreated and beaten and ripped of your dignity. Just as we experience psychological events now that cause trauma. We have to acknowledged the trauma he endured and his ancestors endured which led to his breaking point along with many other's who participated in the rebellion.

Again, I'm not saying murder is okay and was the answer but I cannot make judgement on the situation when I did not live during his time, nor do I know what it is like to be stripped of your freedom and dignity. I cannot say my actions would have been of anything less than his and the others which is sad to say but truthful. All he had was his faith in God and he felt God chose him to lead and make a statement of his rebellion.

Here you can see how Edwards attempted to persuade not only adults but children to convert to God's way rather than walk among the congregation unsaved. This touches me personally because I can remember as a kid going to church that I too felt less connected to God because I wasn't baptized and saved. I would beg my grandmother to let me walk up with the other older children and adults when the pastor would ask "who wants to be saved to day and turn their life over to God our father?". She would tell me I wasn't ready yet and that I had to go through a bible study course before the Pastor would baptize me. They also placed a age on when we could attend the studies if you were interested in becoming saved under the age of 13 years old. So, to know in the 1700's children were in some way pressured into baptism or conversion through a cohering tactic is interesting.

This paragraph is quite deep and striking due to the way the writer elaborates and analogizes a sinner in the eyes of God and the Church. There is definitely passion in his words as he describes how sinful individuals could have potentially been during this time. To read the passage, it seems like some kind of a warning. I interpret it as one needing to take head to sinful actions as God see's all that you do and he judges your actions daily. Therefore, if he chooses not to allow you to wake the next day be mindful your actions on Earth could potentially lead you to the gates of hell. I had to read this passage twice because it really struck me. In this day in age, sermons aren't as straight forward as this one in some congregations. The topics of sin are touched on a more lighter note rather than straight forward such as this. I wonder what actions and or public sins were taking place that caused for such sermon to be written? The sermon definitely brought fear to me in this one section so I can only image how the people felt then.