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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. history. The rebellion was effectively suppressed within a few days, at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, but Turner survived in hiding for more than ...
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.
Thomas Gray's pamphlet, the Confessions of Nat Turner, was the first document claiming to present Nat Turner's words regarding the rebellion and his life. Although the pamphlet is a primary source, some historians and literary scholars have found bias in Gray's writing indicating that Gray may not have portrayed Turner's voice as accurately as ...
Nat Turner insurrectionist, former slave (American) Denmark Vesey insurrectionist, former slave (American) Benjamin Wade (American) David Walker (abolitionist) (son of a slave, American) Samuel Ringgold Ward (born into slavery, American) Theodore Dwight Weld (American) Charles Augustus Wheaton (American) Underground Railroad Operator, New York [31]
The name Juneteenth refers to June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people learned about their newfound freedom from federal troops who arrived in Galveston, Texas. This was more than two years after ...
In the 1830s, the movement became increasingly dominated by Southern slave owners, who did not want free blacks and saw sending them to Liberia as a solution. Slaves freed from slave ships were sent there instead of their countries of origin. The emigration of free blacks to Liberia particularly increased after Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831 ...
Slaves in three North Carolina counties conspire to poison their owners, in some cases successfully (1805) [25] German Coast uprising (1811) [26] Aponte Conspiracy (1812) George Boxley Rebellion (1815) Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1822) Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) Baptist War (1831) Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835–1838) [27] Amistad ...
Mellard, James M. "This Unquiet Dust: The Problem of History in Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner", Mississippi Quarterly, 36.4 (Fall 1983), pp. 525–43. Ryan, Tim A. "From Tara to Turner: Slavery and Slave Psychologies in American Fiction and History, 1945–1968", Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the ...