turner, nat

"Nat Turner, an enslaved black man, believed he was chosen by God to battle against the evils of slavery. Driven by visions, Turner banded with six others, and on August 22, 1831, his rebellion began with attacks at plantations in Southampton, Virginia. As he and his group moved from plantation to plantation, dozens of enslaved men joined them. Finally, the local militia put an end to their movement, arresting and hanging many of the men involved. Nat Turner's rebellion deepened the divide between Americans who wanted to abolish slavery and those who wanted to protect it, setting the groundwork for the American Civil War"--.

Examines the life of Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831.

A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.

Brief biography profiling the life and achievements of Nat Turner, a slave and prophet who led a revolt against slave owners in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

This book tells the story of Nathaniel Nat Turner, a black slave who led a rebellion in the American South in the summer of 1831.

The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

Presents the confession of Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion in Southhampton, Virginia, in August, 1831, as recorded by attorney Thomas Gray in the days following the uprising, and includes selected newspaper articles, trial transcripts, and other related essays and documents.

Gives an account, based on the true story of a slave rebellion in 1831, of a noble man's moral decline.