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.
Source: Slavery Throught History: Biographies, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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