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	Africans in America/Part 3/Nat Turner's Rebellion
		Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia, the week before Gabriel was hanged.
		Nat Turner hid in several different places near the Travis farm, but on October 30 was discovered and captured.
		• The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html (689 words)

	Be Aware - Nat Turner
		Nat Turner was born into slavery in 1800 in Southampton County Virginia on the plantation of John Travis.
		Nat was a born lover of freedom and was not prepared to accept a life of slavery.
		Nat Turner had his talents suppressed by slavery; his case is of one who was capable of great service to America and humanity.
	www.daintycrew.com /natturner.htm (862 words)

	Nat Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some of his devoted flock began to call him "the Prophet." A solar eclipse in 1831 was God's sign to Nat Turner that the time had come to strike the blow for freedom.
		Nat managed to escape and hide out for six weeks before he was captured.
		Nat Turner's rebellion set off a reign of terror for all fls in the area as state and federal troops swept through, killing as many as 200 fls.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/natturner.html (359 words)

	Nat Turner Summary
		Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2 1800 – November 11 1831) was a American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable instance of fl resistance to enslavement in the antebellum Southern United States and has become a reference of justification for the American Civil War.
		Turner called on his group to "kill all whites." The rebellion spared no one, but a small child who hid in a fireplace was among the few survivors.
		Nat Turner finally became the focus of popular historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker was publishing the first serious scholarly work on instances of slave resistance in the antebellum South.
	www.bookrags.com /Nat_Turner (1222 words)

	Independent Lens . NAT TURNER: A Troublesome Property . Nat Turner \| PBS
		In 1821, Turner ran away from his master, Samuel Turner, but came back after a month because he had a vision in which he was told to return.
		Turner and his men attempted to attack another house, but several of the rebels were captured.
		Nat Turner hid in several different places near the Travis farm before he was captured on October 30.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/natturner/nat.html (435 words)

	Nat Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nat "Nat Turner" (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable instance of fl resistance to enslavement in the antebellum southern United States.
		Nat called on his group to "kill all whites." The rebellion did not discriminate by age or sex, although Nat later indicated that he intended to spare women, children, and men who surrendered as it went on.
		Prior to the Turner Revolt there was a fairly substantial abolition movement in the state, largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820's and fears of the rising number of fls in whites, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nat_Turner (1069 words)

	Nat Turner - MSN Encarta
		Nat Turner (1800-1831), American slave, leader of a fl slave revolt.
		Born on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Turner was a popular religious leader among his fellow slaves and became convinced that he had been chosen by God to lead his people to freedom.
		As a result of Nat Turner's revolt, southern legislatures imposed stricter control on slaves, and the movement to abolish slavery, which had previously enjoyed some support in the South, became a northern phenomenon.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761568694 (185 words)

	Nat Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gray's document portrays Nat as an extremely educated and intelligent slave, both to his benefit and detriment (his intelligence was used to further condemn him as a cruel, calculated murderer and reassure whites that in his intelligence he was unusual and the revolt was unlikely to happen again.
		Nat's rebellion was the most successful and bloody of any slave revolt, but was ended by the militia, (summoned by the whites from neighbouring Jerusalem where Nat's band was next headed) who arrived on August 22nd.
		Nat's rebellion was thought to have led directly to the strengthening of the Black Codes, prevalent throughout the South, which enforced strict rules and codes of behaviour on fls.
	www.angelfire.com /film/2fiction/NatTurner.html (446 words)

	Nathaniel Turner
		Nat Turner was born a slave on Oct. 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Va. As a child, he exhibited notable leadership qualities and intelligence.
		In February 1831 Turner received what he believed to be a sign from God (a solar eclipse) telling him that it was time for him and his companions to prepare for the revolt.
		Because Turner's motive was a desire for liberty, some regard him as cast in the same mold as the American patriots who fought the Revolutionary War and as other freedom-loving men.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/nat_turner.htm (469 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- Southampton Slave Revolt
		This was the beginning of a slave uprising that was to become known as Nat Turner's rebellion.
		Nat Turner was born a slave in Virginia in 1800 and grew to become a slave preacher.
		The first report of the Turner revolt was sent in the form of a letter from the Postmaster of Jerusalem to the Governor of Virginia.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refslave.html (957 words)

	Nat Turner's slave rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nat Turner's slave rebellion was a slave rebellion that happened in Virginia in August 1831.
		Nat Turner chased her through a field until she tripped and fell and then struck her in the head repeatedly with the butt of his sword before bludgeoning her to death with a fence post.
		Nat Turner made it explicit that the Reese farm was not to be targeted, because his own family was enslaved there at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nat_Turner's_rebellion (1828 words)

	The Real Nat Turner
		Nat Turner did not come out of any common history of whites and fls and William Styron knew that fact in l967 and we all know that now.
		Nat Turner’s victory over enslavement can be found in his challenge of the system and his strike against our debasement.
		Nat Turner’s emergence as a revolutionary in 1831 came on the heels of the 1825 emigration to Haiti of thousands of Africans from the United States, and David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in l829.
	www.asante.net /articles/nat-turner.htm (3365 words)

	Nat Turner Biography (Slave) — Infoplease.com
		Nat Turner was a fl preacher who led an 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia in which at least 55 whites were killed by a group of about 50 slaves.
		Turner's failed rebellion led to hundreds of fls being murdered by white vigilante mobs, and spurred a new set of strict codes that limited the activities of slaves.
		Nat Turner - Turner, Nat, 1800–1831, American slave, leader of the Southampton Insurrection (1831), b.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/natturner.html (331 words)

	Death or Liberty
		Attention focused on Turner; it was his "imagined spirit of prophecy" and his extraordinary powers of persuasion, local authorities reported, that had turned obedient slaves into bloodthirsty killers.
		Certified as authentic by six local magistrates and said to be authorized by Turner himself, the "Confessions" became the definitive source for nearly all subsequent accounts of the event.
		Nat Turner's revolt prompted a prolonged debate in the Virginia General Assembly of 1831- 1832.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/DeathLiberty/natturner (545 words)

	RW ONLINE:The Slave Rebellion of General Nat Turner
		Nat Turner was born on the Virginia farm of Benjamin Turner on October 2, 1800.
		Nat Turner had a series of vivid visions, which he believed revealed his mission--to lead slaves in a war for freedom.
		Nat Turner expected to seize Jerusalem's arsenals and rally all the slaves of the county to his side.
	rwor.org /a/v19/940-49/945/turner.htm (2731 words)

	Nat Turner
		Nat, the son of slaves, was the property of Benjamin Turner, a prosperous plantation owner.
		Nat's only weapon was a small light sword which he immediately surrendered, and begged that his life might be spared.
		Nat Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASturner.htm (956 words)

	The Nat Turner Trail
		The Nat Turner Trail was named and established by H. Khalif Khalifah and his late wife Sister Reda Faard Khalifah.
		Of course it was founded by one of Black America's all time great heroes, General Nat Turner who led the Black Liberation Army of 1831 in a revolt that was designed to free every fl man, woman and child in the United States of America.
		Nat Turners plan was to confiscate the weapons to arm his army.
	www.khabooks.com /natturner.html (536 words)

	Vignette: Nat Turner
		Nathaniel “Nat” Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia on October 2, 1800, the son of slaves owned by Benjamin Turner, a prosperous farmer.
		While still planning the uprising, Turner saw that the color of the sun had changed to a bluish-green, which he believed was the final sign to initiate the uprising.
		Turner escaped and eluded Virginia authorities for two months but was finally captured and tried for insurrection and murder.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/turner_nat.htm (365 words)

	Nat Turner in History's Multiple Mirrors, by Felicia R. Lee
		On Nov. 11, 1831, the slave Nat Turner was hanged in Jerusalem, Southampton County, Va., for leading a shocking revolt against slavery.
		"Nat Turner is a classic example of an iconic figure who is deeply heroic on one side and deeply villainous on the other," said David W. Blight, a history professor at Yale and who this summer will become director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition there.
		He explores an interpretation of one description of Turner as evidence that he was a mulatto fathered by his master.
	www.kpfalaborcollective.org /blackhistory/bh_natturner.htm (1450 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Confessions of Nat Turner: Books: William Styron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The confession Turner made to his jailers under the duress of his God is a narrative describing a good man's transformation into an avenging angel even as it encompasses all the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that is still present in the collective psyches of both races.
		Nat lived in the house and was treated as an equal, the woman was kind and beautiful, it would be racist to think that Nat shouldn't be attracted to her or worthy of her love.
		Nat Turner was more than likely unbalanced, he had a non-existant plan of action or behavior and his primary victims were children and women: a true sign of cowardice in any culture.
	www.amazon.ca /Confessions-Nat-Turner-William-Styron/dp/0679736638 (1516 words)

	"Nat Turner's Insurrection"
		Thus, for instance, we know that Nat Turner's young wife was a slave; we know that she belonged to a different master from himself; we know little more than this, but this is much.
		Nat Turner attacked Virginia from within, with six men, and with the determination to spare no life until his power was established.
		Nat Turner intended to "conquer Southampton County as the white men did in the Revolution, and then retreat, if necessary, to the Dismal Swamp." Each plan was deliberately matured; each was in its way practicable; but each was defeated by a single false step, as will soon appear.
	www.unl.edu /Price/dickinson/analogue10.html (6894 words)

	Turner, Nat. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After killing the family of Turner’s owner, the band ravaged the neighborhood, in two days killing a total of 55 white people, mostly women and children.
		Turner himself escaped to the woods, but was captured six weeks later and hanged.
		Over the years, Turner became a figure of controversy, seen by some as a vicious fanatic and by others as a hero of fl resistence.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tu/Turner-N.html (265 words)

	Nat Turner
		Nat Turner was the property of Benjamin Turner, slave owner.
		Nat was approximately three or four years old when he spoke of these things that he could have never known at that time.
		Nat had strange marks on his head and breast that Negroes (African American) in those times only few had, so his parents believed that those marking meant something special or he had a great purpose for his life.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/71340/Nat_Turner.html (277 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Confessions of Nat Turner intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the most important and best-documented slave insurrection in Southern history, Nat Turner, son of an African-born slave mother in Southampton County, Virginia, led an uprising of sixty or seventy slaves.
		Nat Turner went to the gallows, saying that he had nothing to add to his Confession.
		The Nat Turner insurrection shocked the South and led most slave-state legislatures to pass stringent codes for policing.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1826-1850/slavery/confes01.htm (342 words)

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