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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 Ruffin Gray (1800 – died after 1834) was an American attorney who represented several enslaved people during the trials in the wake of Nat Turner's Rebellion. Though he was not the attorney who represented Nat Turner, instead he interviewed him and wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner.
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]
The swamp became a particularly more enticing in times of great upheaval like the American Revolution, reflected by the increase in refugees. [4] Today the swamp is seen as a place of resistance, [46] where enslaved people could share in their cultural, agricultural and artisan knowledge, make their own economy and have their own freedom. [4
The Delectable Negro explores the homoeroticism of literal and metaphorical acts of human cannibalism coincident with slavery in the United States. [1] Woodard writes that the consumption of Black men by white male enslavers was a "natural by-product of their physical, emotional, and spiritual hunger" for the Black man. [2]
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These practices were done in secret away from slaveholders. This was done in the Hoodoo church among the enslaved. Nat Turner had visions and omens which he interpreted came from spirit, and that spirit told him to start a rebellion to free enslaved people through armed resistance. Turner combined African spirituality with Christianity.