Contested communion: the limits of white solidarity in Nat Turner's Virginia.(Era overview)

From: Journal of the Early Republic | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Southampton County, Virginia, was home to two of the most prominent southern opponents of slavery: Nat Turner and David Barrow. Nat Turner, the prophetic slave-rebel, inspired and led the 1831 Southampton slave revolt, the most famous slave revolt in U.S. history. David Barrow's antislavery activities were less dramatic but no less clear. A Baptist preacher, Barrow tapped into evangelical antislavery sentiment to begin a sustained attack on slavery. Although he owned two slaves, he came to the conclusion in 1782 that slaveholding was "contrary to the laws of God and nature." In ...

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