click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document.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 ...
Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia, the week before Gabriel was hanged. While still a young child, Nat was overheard describing events that had happened before ...
Nat Turner, the most famous slave rebel in American history, has always been a mysterious, troubling and important figure. In both history and in popular memory, few names in the long American ...