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  2. Nat Turner's Rebellion - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Nat Turner - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Siege of Petersburg - Wikipedia

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    The collection of maps (without explanatory text) is available online at the West Point website. Frassanito, William A. Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns 1864–1865. New York: Scribner, 1983. ISBN 0-684-17873-7. Fuller, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Grant and Lee, A Study in Personality and Generalship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.

  5. 1831 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    October 30 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history. November 5 – Slave leader Nat Turner is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia for inciting a violent slave uprising.

  6. Category:Massacres in 1831 - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Massacres in 1831" ... Massacre of Salsipuedes This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 07:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  7. Draper's Meadow massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Draper's Meadow Massacre was an attack in July 1755, when the Draper's Meadow settlement in southwest Virginia, at the site of present-day Blacksburg, was raided by a group of Shawnee warriors, who killed at least four people including an infant, and captured five more. [1]

  8. Battle of Peebles' Farm - Wikipedia

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    Map of Peebles' Farm Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. The Battle of Peebles' Farm (or Poplar Springs Church or Poplar Grove Church) was the western part of a simultaneous Union offensive against the Confederate works guarding Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War.

  9. Hard Scrabble and Snow Town - Wikipedia

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    Map of Providence in 1823, one year before the Hard Scrabble Riot. The Trial took place in September 1824 under the direction of Chief Justice Thomas Mann.Of the at least 40 rioters present only 8 were identified charged for the crime: Oliver Cummins, Joseph Butler Jr., Nathaniel G. Metcalf, Amos Chaffee, John Sherman, Gilbert Humes, Arthur Farrier, James Gibbs, Ezra Hubbard, and William Taylor.