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Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, ... After his execution, Turner's body was dissected and flayed, with his skin being used to make souvenir purses.
Participants tried and executed or sold: Casualties; 56 to 85 White men, women, and children: 10 to 120 Black rebels and non-rebels: ... Nat Turner's Rebellion, ...
August: Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia. At least 58 white persons are killed. Whites in turn kill about 100 blacks in the area during the search for Turner and his companions and in retaliation for their actions. Turner is captured several months later, after which he and 12 of his followers are executed.
Nat Turner's slave rebellion: August 21–23, 1831 Southampton County, Virginia: Rebel slaves Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. [13] The rebellion was put down within a few days. [14] Local blacks were massacred. Led to discriminatory legislation against both free blacks and slaves Dorr Rebellion: 1841–1842 ...
Turner and the other rebels were eventually stopped by state militias. [17] The rebellion resulted in the hanging of about 56 slaves, including Nat Turner himself. Up to 200 other blacks were killed during the hysteria that followed, few of whom likely had anything to do with the uprising. [ 18 ]
Martin Delany's serialized novel, Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–61), referred to Vesey and Nat Turner, as well as having a protagonist who plans a large-scale slave insurrection. [ 46 ] Denmark Vesey is the name and basis for a character in Orson Scott Card 's The Tales of Alvin Maker , an alternate history series of books set in the ...
Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American) ... (1856) and was later executed for leading an unsuccessful 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia in 1831. It is a fictional retelling based on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia , a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas ...