Nat Turner believed that God had chosen him to end slavery, "get up and prepare myself and slay my enemies with their own weapons" (Jones, Created Equal, page 284). Nat Turner preached to the slaves his vision that God had sent him and convinced many to follow him. Eventually, he gathered around eighty men to move across the countryside, killing every white person in their path. Nat and his followers killed around sixty whites by the end of his rebellion a week later. When Nat Turner was finally captured, he was tried, convicted, and executed. Nat Turner's Rebellion showed how America contradicts itself, leaders have always used religion to make sense of what they do, like Manifest Destiny. However, Nat Turner used religion to make sense of his rebellion and called it blasphemy. This rebellion shocked white slave owners and instilled a sense of fear in them, “all slave states moved to strengthen the institution of slavery” (Jones, Created Equal, p. 285). This rebellion caused the South to end the importation of slaves, but unfortunately it did not end slavery entirely. White slave owners were more concerned about the profits from keeping slaves rather than the danger they might face if they did so. Nat Turner's rebellion showed an invisible spark for the slaves, he showed them that if this rebellion stopped the importation of slaves, more rebellions could probably end slavery