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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
An examination of the 1831 slave insurrection in Virginia with background, issues, Turner's motivation and leadership, outcome and white and government response.
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"This research will construct a narrative of the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831, with reference to documents produced at the time of the event. The research will set forth the context in which the Turner rebellion occurred and will discuss the motivation of Turner, the causes of the revolt, and the goals of the rebels.By the time Nat Turner and other slaves killed more than 50 white people in and around Southampton, Virginia, in August of 1831, the slaveholders of the South had little experience that might have prepared them for the realization that the institution of slavery could place their lives in jeopardy. A conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey, a free Negro living in Charleston, North Carolina, had emerged in 1822, partly out of public discourse over the Missouri Compromise (1821), which settled the..."
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