Black American Slave Rebellion: Nathanial Nat Turner's Rebellion

Nathanial “Nat” Turner was born October 2, 1800 on the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner. He is recognized as the only Black American slave to led one of the most gruesome sustained slave rebellion that took place on August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turners’ revolt (also known as the Southampton insurrection) was the most effective rebellion in U.S. history. Spreading fear through the white South. During Tuners’ life on the plantation, Benjamin allowed him to be taught in religion, reading, and writing. Turner was sold three times in his childhood and hired out to John Travis in the early twenties of his life. He became a strong and fiery preacher and leader of Black slaves on Benjamin Turner’s plantation and in his Southampton County neighborhoods, claiming that he was the divine one chosen by God to lead them from bondage.
Turner Believed in signs and heavenly voices, he believed to have been convinced by an eclipse of the Sun one afternoon in 1831 that the time to stand up and fight had come. This caused Turner to recruit the help of four other black slaves in the area of Southampton that lead to a rebellion that was intended, abandoned, and then reorganized for August 21, 1831. When Turner and six other black slaves …show more content…
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