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Bookmark or Share- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by HerselfNat Turner himself escaped but then was captured on October 30. He was tried and then hung on November 11. The event left a searing impression, alarming slaveowners throughout the South and aggravating their constant fear of slave uprisings. Because of the Turner rebellion, Southern states passed more severe laws in attempts to control slaves.
- Nat Turner - Encyclopedia.comTurner, Nat c.1800–1831 BIBLIOGRAPHY [1] Abolitionist and rebel Nat Turner [2] was born circa October 2, 1800, on the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner, the child of an enslaved woman named Nancy (the name of Nat’s father is unknown).
- Nathaniel Turner - Encyclopedia.comWilliam Styron's novel Confessions of Nat Turner (1968) evoked considerable reaction from blacks, which is summarized in John Henrik Clarke, ed., William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (1968). Eric Foner, Nat Turner (1971), is a thorough, well-researched account of the rebellion and the reaction to it. Henry I.
- Gabriel's Rebellion - Encyclopedia.comFor slaves, resistance to slavery took both individual and collective forms. Individual acts such as sabotage, murder, or running away were paralleled by successive generations of slave rebels, most famously Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, who learned of Gabriel's rebellion from oral history.
- Nat Turners Rebellion | Encyclopedia.comNat Turner's Rebellion. The slave rebellion that erupted in Southampton County, Virginia, on the night of August 20, 1831, is arguably the most significant slave insurrection to have occurred in U.S. history, with many historians arguing that it was a watershed moment for the Old South that precipitated the collapse of the region's antislavery movement and launched its twenty-year-long road ...
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