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Turner, Nat
Turner, Nat (1800–31) Black American leader of the Virginia slave revolt of 1831. Believing himself a divine instrument to guide his people out of bondage, Turner led about 60 slaves into revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, killing 57 White people before he, his followers, and a number of innocent slaves were killed. Turner's rebellion exacerbated Southern fears of insurrection and led to a tightening of police measures against slaves.
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Nat Turner before the bar of judgment: Fictional treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.
Magazine article from: African American Review; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...responsible for the cure.'" Pauline Bouve's Nat Turner is similar to and yet different from the other authors' Nat Turners. Bouve endows her Nat Turner with special powers, a narrative "strategy...
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Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatment of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatment...Massacre (1856) is an overlooked example of Nat Turner in literature. James, a British consul...ninety books over three decades, introduced Nat Turner into a conventional romance. To...
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Interview: Kenneth Greenberg on the Nat Turner rebellion and a new book he has edited about that event
Transcript from: NPR Tavis Smiley; 4/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Kenneth Greenberg on the Nat Turner rebellion and a new...confessions of Nat Turner, which were published...offer insights on Nat Turner, who he was...passionately about Nat Turner, given the kind of...modern scholarship on Nat Turner was during...
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The confessions of Nat Turner.(American History Play)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 12/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...should understand * Nat Turner led the bloodiest...troubled slave named Nat Turner helped to explode...everything we know about Nat Turner comes from...the words! Benjamin Turner: With such a restless...farm marvel at young Nat's remarkable gifts...
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Profile: Charles Burnett's documentary "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property"
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 2/10/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Burnett's documentary "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property...Noon BOB EDWARDS, host: "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property...and co-writer of "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property...the story of the story of Nat Turner, how people have...
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Nat Turner kin talks about rebellion significance.(Virginia Beach Beacon)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 2/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...KEMPSVILLE Although Nathaniel Turner died almost two centuries...slavery. The name of Nat Turner was supposed to...students Feb. 6 about Nat Turner: Visionary, Liberator...opportunity to learn about Nat Turner the same as you are...grandson of Nathaniel Nat ...
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Nat Turner: a Slave Rebellion in History and Memory.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History...4.) We know less about Nat Turner, who led one of the...reader is first introduced to Turner, then to the foundational...novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Central to the collection...
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Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History...4.) We know less about Nat Turner, who led one of the...reader is first introduced to Turner, then to the foundational...novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Central to the collection...
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Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments...becomes "the bearer and defender of the Nat Turner tradition" who is simultaneously sympathetic...important nineteenth-century novel in the Nat Turner tradition is Harriet Beecher Stowe...
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Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment...Stone's study, The Return of Nat Turner (Athens, Ga., 1992...linked to the `historical' Nat Turner" by a military trope--the...Bouve borrows to construct a Nat Turner of "mystery" (p...
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The Nat Turner Insurrection (1859, by Thomas Hamilton)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
THE NAT TURNER INSURRECTION (1859, by...here the parallel ceases. Nat Turner's terrible logic could...reversed — had Nat Turner been in John Brown's place...into maturity a hundred Nat Turners, when Virginia is infinitely...
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Turner, Nat
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Turner, Nat c.1800 – 1831 Abolitionist and rebel Nat Turner was born circa October...Douglass, whites spoke of Nat as being too clever to be raised in bondage, and Benjamin Turner once remarked that the boy...
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Nat Turner's Uprising
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Nat Turner's Uprising (1831).The bloodiest slave...American history, organized and led by Nat Turner, broke out on 22 August 1831 in...Americans seized hope and strength from Nat Turner's uprising as a fierce assault on the...
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
NAT TURNER'S REBELLION Nat Turner was an American slave who led the only sustained slave revolt...FURTHER READING Duff, John B. and Peter M. Mitchell. The Nat Turner Rebellion; The Historical Event and the Modern Controversy . New...
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Nat Turner
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nat Turner 1800-1831, American slave, leader of...Va. Deeply religious from childhood, Turner was a natural preacher and possessed some...French (2004); C. Burnett, dir., Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (documentary...
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