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The confessions of Nat Turner : the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va. / by Nat Turner ; edited by Thomas R. Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Virginia--Southampton County--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Slave rebellions--Virginia.
- Slave rebellions.
- Enslaved persons--Virginia--Southampton County--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.
- Southampton County (Va.)--History--19th century.
- Southampton County (Va.).
- Virginia--History--1775-1865.
- Virginia.
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
- Turner, Nat.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 p.)
- Edition:
- DocSouth ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' details Turner's life and the events surrounding that armed revolt, which left more than fifty men, women, and children dead and that culminated in Turner's execution.
- Contents:
- ""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""TO THE PUBLIC.""; ""CONFESSION.""; ""The Commonwealth, vs. Nat Turner. ""; ""A LIST OF PERSONS MURDERED IN THE INSURRECTION, ON THE 21ST AND 22ND OF AUGUST, 1831.""; ""A List of Negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, with their owners' names, and sentence.""
- Notes:
- "A DocSouth Books edition."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 9).
- ISBN:
- 9798890843111
- 9798890843128
- 9781469602813
- 1469602814
- 9780807869468
- 0807869465
- OCLC:
- 835769355
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