Nat Turner, The American Spartucus

What if the rebellion had been more successful, or lasted longer.

How plausible are the following events
1. Nat Turner convinces Indians to Join their revolt
2. Turner goes further south, and builds a formidable army of slaves
3. Turner's slave army reaches southern Florida, and escapes destruction by the American army by fleeing to Spanish Cuba
4. Turner starts a slave rebellion in Cuba, deposing the Spanish colonial government

So how plausible is this. Assuming all of this happened, how might this effect American history? Would America try to acquire cuba in order to gain justice? How might this effect the civil war 30 years later?
 
So he, uh, is Spartacus, eh?
That's funny, because I thought that I'M SPARTACUS! :p

In seriousness, though:
1. Not very plausible.
2. Possible, but doomed to failure in the long run. Only way would be guerilla warfare, and slaves were poorly-education. At least Spartacus' men were mostly ex-Gladiators that had military or at least fighting experience.
3. No freakin' way. They'd get intercepted by American military or State militias with real military knowledge long before reaching Florida.
4. No way in hell.

All four together? Not possible.
 
If the US was only the southern slave states then maybe. Add in the north and slaves go from 1/3 to about 1/8. Those are pretty bad odds.
 
What if the rebellion had been more successful, or lasted longer.

How plausible are the following events
1. Nat Turner convinces Indians to Join their revolt
2. Turner goes further south, and builds a formidable army of slaves
3. Turner's slave army reaches southern Florida, and escapes destruction by the American army by fleeing to Spanish Cuba
4. Turner starts a slave rebellion in Cuba, deposing the Spanish colonial government

So how plausible is this. Assuming all of this happened, how might this effect American history? Would America try to acquire cuba in order to gain justice? How might this effect the civil war 30 years later?

1. Not likely, there weren't many Indians around Virginia by then
2. Possible but probably gets caught and killed sooner or later.
3. ASB, how do they get to Cuba?
4. See above.
 
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