During the summer of 1831, a slave preached leading a group of blacks throughout Southampton County, Virginia, and these blacks were part of the largest slave revolution in the history of the United States of America. America (Williams, 2012). The infamous force behind the rebellion was Nat Turner and he succeeded in his plans by influencing the other African slaves in his community. However, Nat Turner was eventually captured during the riot and hanged for his crimes. Nat Turner's story doesn't seem to have anything to do with the tragedies of Men We Reaped, but it does. Before the death of Jesmyn Ward's friend Roger Daniels III occurs in the novel, readers are introduced to some of Roger's demons and it becomes clear that his death may have been caused by his own actions. Regardless of whether Roger and Nat may have found trouble in their mistakes, it seems that fate shows no mercy towards black men. Both black men made terrible decisions, but the odds were against them from the start. For example, Nat Turner's actions were gruesome, but he was a slave and there was no hope from the beginning to the end of his life. Therefore, Nat Turner believed that the slave rebellion would bring about change and even risked his own life to spark a revolution. Furthermore, Turner's sins against humanity and