Juneteenth, the holiday that's been referred to as America's second Independence Day, commemorates when the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned they were officially free. Decades before the ...

A view of Cabin Pond in Southampton County, Va., where Nat Turner plotted rebellion in the summer of 1831. (Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images) Nat Turner, the most famous slave rebel in ...

“The Grim Work of Death” by Christopher Myers. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Copyright Christopher ...

In August 1831, on the edge of the Dismal Swamp, the Mid-Atlantic coastal region where the states of Virginia and North Carolina meet, Nat Turner entered the pantheon of American charismatic heroes.

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. After his capture and arrest on October 30, 1831, Nat Turner was imprisoned in the Southampton County Jail, where he was ...

SOUTHAMPTION COUNTY, VIRGINIA (WTKR) — Juneteenth, the holiday that’s been referred to as America’s second Independence Day, commemorates when the last group of enslaved people in Texas learned they ...