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Turner, Nat c.1800–1831 BIBLIOGRAPHY [1] Abolitionist and rebel Nat Turner [2] was born circa October 2, 1800, on the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner, the child of an enslaved woman named Nancy (the name of Nat’s father is unknown).
Nat Turner's Rebellion. The slave rebellion that erupted in Southampton County, Virginia, on the night of August 20, 1831, is arguably the most significant slave insurrection to have occurred in U.S. history, with many historians arguing that it was a watershed moment for the Old South that precipitated the collapse of the region's antislavery movement and launched its twenty-year-long road ...
William Styron's novel Confessions of Nat Turner (1968) evoked considerable reaction from blacks, which is summarized in John Henrik Clarke, ed., William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (1968). Eric Foner, Nat Turner (1971), is a thorough, well-researched account of the rebellion and the reaction to it. Henry I.
Nat Turner’s Revolt, upon which William Styron’s novel is based, is probably the most widely known slave uprising. Like the fictionalized character in William Styron’s novel, the real-life Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, heard voices instructing him to rise up against white slaveowners in the South.
The Nat Turner Insurrection became for pro and antislavery forces alike a powerful image of the brutality inherent in slavery. Anglo-African Magazine reprinted Thomas Gray's Confession of Nat Turner to mark John Brown's 1859 execution at Harper's Ferry. In his introduction, editor Thomas Hamilton compared the two radicals: both were compelled ...
For slaves, resistance to slavery took both individual and collective forms. Individual acts such as sabotage, murder, or running away were paralleled by successive generations of slave rebels, most famously Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, who learned of Gabriel's rebellion from oral history.
Nat Turner was for a time the most feared man in the South. This extract from the Norfolk Herald, Norfolk, Virginia, for 4 November 1831 illustrates both slave owners' relief at recapturing Turner before his revolt escalated and their contempt that he should even contemplate seizing the personal freedom that they felt the Founding Fathers had ...
Gabriel Prosser Conspiracy Gabriel Prosser worked in secret during 1800 to recruit and organize thousands of enslaved Virginians.
In August 1831 Nat Turner led the most famous revolt ever in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and five others, with no clear plan of action, embarked on a killing spree. Turner's marauding army swelled to approximately seventy-five. They killed over seventy whites, many women and children, and caused panic over a wide area.
Nat Turner himself escaped but then was captured on October 30. He was tried and then hung on November 11. The event left a searing impression, alarming slaveowners throughout the South and aggravating their constant fear of slave uprisings. Because of the Turner rebellion, Southern states passed more severe laws in attempts to control slaves.