Women have made many contribution in American history. Angelina is a well educated individual. She knows the impact of the community level effort. When the community come together for a common cause, it becomes very effective. She is trying to convince the women to get in touch with the legislative body and convey their concerns. If the women provide the moral and religious reasons to the legislatives then there is a better chance that laws can be passed to make slavery a thing of past. This can only be done if tough laws are created and can be implemented if the netizens support these laws.

Angelina is making sure in the text that she has thought about this through and through. And, she has come to the conclusion that she needs to share with her friends and relatives and community the truth about slavery. She is trying to persuade her audience that the righteous ones will listen and head to her advice. She has complete faith in the audience and their faith that they will listen to her advice and use sound judgement.

Angelina is getting to the subject matter. She is letting the audience know that she prays for all. She wants to turn the audiences' attention to a subject matter that they might not have either much interest on or have not been exposed to. Angelina is about to start to talk about an uncomfortable topic may be for most of her audience. She wants to enlighten the audience to this topic of slavery. She wants to let everyone know that the law the bible has laid upon was for everyone. It was not specific to a specific group of people. Even if the audience has no interest in the slavery subject matter, being Christians the audience need to know what the moral laws their common religion has laid out for everyone.

Angelina writes to her audience, even if we do not know each other, even if the audience has not heard of her before. She says that they are connected, they are connected as the same which is their shared religion, shared physical outlook and the shared background. The use of 'as branches of the same vine from whose root' basically refers that they might be different but the same. Their histories are the same, their present is the same. All of them as the same community take the same inspiration from the bible. They are more common than they are different. This is a precursor to a point Angelina will make is that the same thing that is wrong applies to all of them and the same thing that is right applies to all because all of them take their inspiration and motivation from the same bible. There should not be different interpretation of the moral code.

Once the relationship is built with the audience, Angelina is reinforcing the fact that the audience and her, they are from the same community. They have the same goal of betterment of the community. Angelina also reinforces the fact that she as well as the audience are of Christian faith. She emphasizes that it's not only her duty as a human being, a Southerner but also a Christian to let the audience know that she also was brought up under the same circumstances of slavery. That it was normal and that she didn't know better. She is asking that now that she knows the grave impacts of slavery, that slavery needs to be broken.

In this text, Grimke is setting up the tone of how her speech is going to sound. Its always important to connect with the audience for a speech to be effective. Grimke is doing just that, she conveys respect to all the audience members. She calls them respected friends instead of other salutations because friends are the ones with whom we have the strongest relationship. Sometimes even more than relationship by blood and family. We share our deepest regrets, shame, fears along with the happiest moments. Angelina is setting up that relationship to start the speech. Then she builds more by relating with the audience calling some as relative and the remaining as sharing the same faith. This covers innate, built and societal relationships. She lets them know that this speech is not so much about the past, but tries to set the floor for how the present time is and how it can impact the future welfare.

In this line, Grimke is trying to persuade the women of the South that slavery is immoral. She is trying to relate to the Southern women that she is also from the South. The tactic the text is referencing 'suasion' is the precursor to persuasion. The act of providing logic and reason for the audience to come to an agreement with the narrator's view is suasion which leads to persuasion.

Something I find interesting is, Nat Turner in his confession uses 'Blood' five times where as the use of 'God' only twice. Yes, different version of god is used in the confession but just the number of times blood gives us an indication that subconsciously it is about the violence that he had in his mind.

Nat Turner at this point is already thinking of himself above other people, the whites or his black followers. He is already calling people his servants. He is saying he has higher understanding of the thats beyond his control like changing of the season, the revolution of the planets. These things might have made a big impact on the followers who were slaves and I am sure did not have good education. Ted Turner was able to manipulate the followers. These are the techniques even used in this day and age. I have read many stories from India where fake gurus or religious leaders manipulate simple folks to perform criminal activities on the guru's behalf. These religious teachers use persuasion and pressure tactics to make their followers to perform things believing they are doing god's work.

The use of word Serpent is usually taken on a bad faith meaning they are deplorable and should be killed. Nat Turner is doing just that to motivate his followers. Now, I completely understand the frustration the salves had against their masters but to kill children for retaliation is just unfathomable.

Nat Turner's mind is made up. When he lead the rebellion, he knew exactly what they were going to do. I am sure there were many events of cruelty and inequality and humiliation he had endured during the time he was a slave. I do not think a godly man would intentionally incite violence. I do not believe if he had other motivations like revenge when he and his followers killed women and children.

When you are a slave, held against your wishes and have no rights to talk back, you would talk to your self. When you are repressed, you don't have a voice of your own. There are things you might be subconsciously thinking. You might have dreams of these subconscious thoughts. I believe these subconscious thoughts are what Nat Turner called spirit. His will to free himself from the entrapment was his mission. He needed support from more people so he revealed that he was a chosen one.

When you are thinking about something, you start debating and many time over analyzing specifically if you are self reflecting. At the beginning you are reasonable, but the more you think about it your emotions take over. If the topic you are reflecting on is negative then you start going about it on the wrong way. I believe Nat Turner was debating on what he needs to do. Once all the events of his enslavement took over his thought process, "the spirit" was his own voice that motivated him to fight against what was impacting him because of being a slave and not having rights. He knew what was coming and he wanted the future events to related with god and not have any remorse for what was going to happen.

I see a lot of emphasis put into the "white attorney" in this sentence. I think it is trying to allude that even with all the crime against humanity Nat Turner led by mercilessly killing innocent children, a white attorney took up the case to defend the person who inflicted unimaginable horror to his race. Its important because the law should be equal irrespective of race, age, gender, economic status, nationality and ethnicity. May in 1831, there were no black attorneys. There is a good change Thomas Ruffin Gray might have taken a big risk by being Nat Turner's attorney.

There are few key words in this sentence that stands out as far as I am concerned. In any rebellion and revolution, there are losses in terms of capital, human life and more. But, to kill women and children is absolutely not warranted. There is no humanely possible reasoning for that atrocity. If that was the beginning of their revolt, with blood on their hands of innocent children; how would they live with this? The fact that the very next line Nat Turner attributes this to God is beyond me. How can you be a leader when you kill children?