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Nat Turner, black prophet : a visionary history

Nat Turner, black prophet : a visionary history

Book 2024

"A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion -- and the new definitive account. 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...