Black Rebellions, An Unachievable Goal for Slaves in the South Full scale slave rebellions as those planned by Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Gabriel Prosser were not common among the African American community in the United States in the nineteenth century. This was due to a lack of hope among the slaves in the South, slave patrols, the fact that less than five percent of the slaves could read, fear of brutality by white masters, …showed first 75 words of 1309 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1309 total…during the nineteenth century. The underlying theme that exists in all of these reasons for white supremacy and African-American compliance is southern paternalism. Slavery was looked at as morally acceptable among whites in the Southern United States and the United States Constitution allows slavery to exist and thrive as its social system and way of life. Illiteracy, white supremacy, mistreatment of blacks and lack of black education were all made possible because of southern paternalism.