... to revolt, his task, as he saw it, was to incite slaves into revolt. In 1821, he organized a working group of lieutenants that included Gullah Jack, considered absolutely invulnerable and Peter Poyas. This later inspired him to make plans to free his fellow slaves. In particular, he liked to use the story of the deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians ... succeeded; despite their fear, European-Americans believed that, in the end, God had protected them. This belief would all soon change, when a man named Nat Turner, who slaves simply called Prophet. He led a short revolt in wh...

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