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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people--men, women, and children--shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites--more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt in American history. Although a hastily assembled group of whites soon suppressed the violence, its repercussions had far-reaching consequences. In The Land Shall...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Nat Turner was a black slave who led a rebellion in the American South in the summer of 1831. A charismatic leader, Turner gathered about 75 slaves to his cause. By the time the insurrection was suppressed, more than 100 were dead, and Turner was hanged. In the aftermath, laws were passed to prevent the education of slaves and a deeper schism opened between abolitionists and slaveholders. The rebellion was truly a harbinger of the bloody...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new history of Nat Turner's rebellion and its aftermath"--
"In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner's slave rebellion is a watershed event in America's long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a film about a critical moment in American history and of the multiple ways in which that moment has since been remembered. Nat Turner was a "troublesome property"...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
9) Nat Turner
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Nat Turner and the Southampton County, Virginia, slave rebellion with comic-style illustrations, occasional narration, and passages from historical texts.
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