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Turner was tried on November 5, 1831, for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection", and was convicted and sentenced to death. [38] [39] His attorney was James Strange French. James Trezvant served on the jury. Turner was hanged on November 11, 1831, in the county seat of Jerusalem, Virginia (now Courtland). [40]
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.
September 8 – John Aitken, music publisher (b. c. 1745) September 15 – Andrea Leone Tottola , Italian librettist September 18 – Peter Hänsel , German composer (born 1770)
The Virginia Harmony is a shape note tune book published in 1831 in Winchester, Virginia and compiled by Methodist lay preacher James P. Carrell (1787–1854) and Presbyterian elder David S. Clayton (1801–1854).
Thomas Henry Carter (June 13, 1831 – June 2, 1908) was an artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His battalion played an important role in the Battle of Gettysburg .
William Wirt Henry (February 14, 1831 – December 5, 1900) was a Virginia lawyer, politician, historian, writer, and a biographer of his grandfather Patrick Henry.Henry served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and as president of The Virginia Bar Association and the American Historical Association.
A song written more than 50 years ago to protest the death of four students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, is seeing a resurgence due to pro-Palestinian rallies at college campuses ...
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