Nat Turner was born on October 2 ... They decided to hold the insurrection on the 4th of July and began planning a strategy. However, they had to postpone action because Turner became ill.

After his capture and arrest on October 30, 1831, Nat Turner was imprisoned in the Southampton County Jail, where he was interviewed by Thomas R. Gray, a Southern physician. Out of that interview ...

This one revolt, led by Nat Turner in 1831, was at that time considered an aberration; it inconveniently disturbed an accepted notion of the slave system: that slavery, although morally wrong ...

Bruce Lawrence Turner, great-great-great grandson of Nat Turner, recently spoke at the Courtland branch of the Blackwater ...

click image for close-up This image portrays the discovery of Nat Turner. After state and federal troops dispersed Turner's forces, he escaped and hid in several different places near the farm ...

In 1791, revolt broke out in the French Caribbean colony of St. Domingue, which was located on the western third of the island of Hispaniola (the eastern two-thirds was owned by Spain and called ...

click image for close-up This drawing shows Nat Turner preaching in the forest. In his "Confession," Turner said, "Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow-servants ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831 ... More than 100 Black people were executed over the rebellion, ...

His book, "The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

The story of Nat Turner and his rebels is just one of these stories from the dark corners. The 2016 film The Birth of a Nation brought the rebellion to the big screen, shedding light, sparking ...

The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection, in Southhampton (county), by Thomas R. Gray, VA...Baltimore, 1831 ...