May 11, 2018 · Turner, Nat 1800–1831 Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia. After living as a slave for thirty-one years, he led the most significant rebellion …

May 21, 2018 · 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 …

Nathaniel Turner Nathaniel Turner (1800-1831) was a black American who organized and led the most successful slave revolt in the United States. Nat Turner was born a slave on Oct. 2, …

The Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronTHE LITERARY WORK A historical novel set in Southampton County, Virginia, during the years 1800 to 1831; published in 1966.SYNOPSIS …

It was in this turbulent context that Nat Turner 's rebellion took place. The slave Nat Turner (1800–1831) of Southampton County, Virginia, has been variously described as a prophet, a …

The narrator explains that the usual yearly "muster" (a procession of musketed white men, gentry and peasant alike, in full military regalia or plain clothes) had already passed when Nat Turner …

Race and Racial TensionsAfter Nat Turner's (1800–1831) rebellion in 1831, Southern fears of servile insurrections increased exponentially. Southern legislatures passed laws further …

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, …

THE NAT TURNER INSURRECTION (1859, by Thomas Hamilton)Nat Turner (1800–1831) was a slave in Southampton County, Virginia. A precocious child, Turner learned to read at a young …

Dew, Thomas Roderick 1802–1846 In the wake of the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831, which took the lives of fifty-seven whites in Southampton County, Virginia, and startled slaveholders …