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 ...
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.
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 ...