Born October 2, 1800
Southampton County, Virginia
Died November 11, 1831
Southampton County, Virginia

Slave, slave preacher, revolt leader

The South was never the same after Nat Turner's revolt of 1831. Turner and approximately seventy slaves killed about sixty white men, women, and children in Southampton County, Virginia—some even as they slept. The myth of the happy slave was forcefully exploded and slaveholders throughout the South no longer slept peacefully. Every little sound in the night reminded them of Nat Turner's reign of terror and the possibility that their slaves might do the same.

Marked at birth

On October 2, 1800, Nat Turner...