That said, a handful of white antislavery advocates were radicalized by the pamphlet. The "Boston Evening Transcript" noted in 1830 that some blacks regarded the "Appeal" "as if it were a star in the east guiding them to freedom and emancipation." White Southerners' fears about a black-led challenge to slavery—fears the "Appeal" stoked—came to pass just a year later in the Nat Turner Rebellion, which inspired them to adopt harsher laws in an attempt to subdue and control slaves and free blacks.