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Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner , the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans , killed between 55 and 65 White people , making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in U.S ...
Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831.
The 1831 edition of The Virginia Harmony. The Virginia Harmony is a shape note tune book published in 1831 in Winchester, Virginia and compiled by Methodist lay preacher James P. Carrell (1787–1854) and Presbyterian elder David S. Clayton (1801–1854).
1888, a monument honoring Attucks and the other victims of the Boston Massacre was erected on Boston Common. It is over 25 feet high and about 10 feet wide. The "bas-relief" (raised portion on the face of the main part of the monument) portrays the Boston Massacre, with Attucks lying in the foreground. Under the scene is the date, March 5, 1770.
A song written more than 50 years ago to protest the death of four students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, is seeing a resurgence due to pro-Palestinian rallies at college campuses ...
September 8 – John Aitken, music publisher (b. c. 1745) September 15 – Andrea Leone Tottola, Italian librettist; September 18 – Peter Hänsel, German composer (born 1770) November 14 – Ignaz Pleyel, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph Haydn (b. 1757) November 30 – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (b. 1760) date unknown
Eyewitness footage shows the immediate aftermath of a shooting incident in Richmond, Virginia, where a man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a ...
Step father and son identified as victims killed in Richmond high school shooting. WATCH: Latest press conference. 10:00, Ariana Baio. Over $20,000 raised for victims' family via GoFundMe