# Smapti is Pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907 "2014-05-21T08:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 447
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/447 "2014-09-09T17:14:00Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > That’s not exactly an unbiased reading of the circumstances of Turner’s rebellion. According to the article you yourself cited; [QUOTE=Your own cite] Turner was highly intelligent, and learned how to read and write at a young age. He grew up deeply religious and was often seen fasting, praying or immersed in reading the stories of the Bible… He frequently had visions, which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life. For instance, when Turner was 21 years old he ran away from his owner, Samuel Turner, but returned a month later after becoming delirious from hunger and receiving a vision that told him to “return to the service of my earthly master.” In 1824, while working in the fields under his new owner, Thomas Moore, Turner had his second vision, in which “the Saviour was about to lay down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and the great day of judgment was at hand.” On August 13, 1831, an atmospheric disturbance made the Sun appear bluish-green. Turner took this as the final signal, and began the rebellion a week later on August 21. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing all the white people they encountered. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > But let’s look at some other slave rebellions in the US: [Gabriel Prosser’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Prosser), [Igbo Landing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Landing), [Chatham Manor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Manor), [German Coast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811_German_Coast_Uprising), [Cherokee Nation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_Slave_Revolt_in_the_Cherokee_Nation), and [John Brown’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry) – what about these? Were these not legitimate? No, because they failed. > [@](#): > > What was the morally correct way for a slave to behave in the decades before 1860? To obey his master. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907)._