... inciting the slaves to revolt changed dramatically when he began to organize his own revolt. He organized a group of lieutenants that included Gullah Jack, a sorcerer who was absolutely invulnerable, and Peter Poyas who was one of the great military and organizational geniuses of the early nineteenth century. Poyas organized the revolt into separate cells under individual leaders. Only the leaders of ... , Southerners held a belief that in the end, God had and would continue to protect them. This belief, however, would soon be shattered by a man referred to amongst the slaves as "Prophet...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 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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• Grade Level: High School