The group ate a meal and took a vow to kill all slave owners they encountered, including women and children. The group traveled from farm to farm, slaughtering whites and freeing blacks. Many of the enslaved chose not to join the revolt, and some even fought to protect their masters.
At most stops the rebel force grew, at one point reaching around 40 recruits. Over the next two days they killed at least 55 whites. Turner's presumed goal was to reach Jerusalem, where he believed there was an armory that his forces could use to further their rebellion. The group never made it to Jerusalem and within two days were scattered and captured by the local militia.
Turner eluded capture for two months by hiding out in the woods. Records show that out of the 53 suspected to be involved, more than 50 were brought to trial, 18 were executed, 12 were transported and sold South, and 21 were discharged to return to their masters.
Of the four free blacks brought to trial, one was executed and the other three found not guilty. It is written that Turner was discovered hiding out on October 30 by farmer Benjamin Phipps.
He surrendered to Phipps and was taken to be tried. On November 5, , he was sentenced to death for "conspiring to rebel and make insurrection. Desperate to regain control in the wake of the rebellion, white militias unleashed a wave of violence and intimidation against both enslaved and free blacks throughout the region.
Many innocent people who had nothing to do with the insurrection were killed as a result of this campaign. In one case a severed head was put on display at a Southampton County crossroad. In Virginia, strict laws were passed to further limit the right of blacks to gather. It is rumored that after Nat Turner was hanged, he was then decapitated, quartered, and skinned.
Allegedly his skull and brain were sent off for study, his fat was rendered to wagon-wheel grease, and pieces of his tanned skin were given out as souvenirs. The new film presents Turner as a patriot. And his descendants and the descendants of survivors of the revolt are back in the news debating the legacy.
Today in Courtland, monuments stand in honor of the Confederate military, and its battle flag can still be seen waving across the South. All rights reserved. The Slave Revolt and the Historical Record On August 21, , Turner led a small army that used axes, hatchets, knives, and muskets to kill 55 white Virginians.
This sacred book belonged to the leader of a brutal slave rebellion and was confiscated in , when he was captured. Turner, a preacher who always had a Bible on him, and his band of slaves killed at least 55 white people in southern Virginia. The Bible appears to have been printed in in Scotland.
His astonished mother and Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton. By the midth century, The 14th Amendment to the U. Tubman is Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker.
He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation After gaining her freedom, Truth preached about abolitionism and equal rights for all. She became known for a speech Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.
In the United States, he was a noted civil rights activist who founded the Negro World newspaper, a shipping He was sentenced to death by hanging, and this sentence was carried out on November 11, Many of his co-conspirators met the same fate. The incident put fear in the heart of Southerners, ending the organized emancipation movement in that region. Southern states enacted even harsher laws against the enslaved instead. Turner's actions also added fuel to the abolitionist movement in the North.
Noted abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison even published an editorial in his newspaper The Liberator in support of Turner to some degree. Over the years, Turner has emerged as a hero, a religious fanatic and a villain.
Turner became an important icon to the s Black power movement as an example of an African American standing up against white oppression. Others have objected to Turner's indiscriminate slaughtering of men, women and children to try to achieve this end.
As historian Scot French told The New York Times , "To accept Nat Turner and place him within the pantheon of American revolutionary heroes is to sanction violence as a means of social change.
He has a kind of radical consciousness that to this day troubles advocates of a racially reconciled society. The story lives because it's relevant today to questions of how to organize for change. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. He struggled with drug addiction and died of an accidental cocaine overdose.
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