In this episode we tell the story of the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner to free himself and other enslaved people in Southampton, Virginia.
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Nat Turner
Artist’s Rendering of Nat Turner’s Capture
The Thomas Gray Pamphlet “Confessions of Nat Turner”
State Historical Marker
SOURCES
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1861/08/nat-turners-insurrection/308736/
https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/nat-turners-rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner
https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/turner.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/slavemap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census
https://www.evblog.virginiahumanities.org/2017/08/slavery-by-the-numbers-redux/
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_Slavery_Debate_of_1831-1832_The#start_entry
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/pop1860numbers.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-abolishes-the-african-slave-trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Free_Blacks_During_the_Civil_War