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.
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 ...
Kaye and Gregory P. Downs’ “Nat Turner, Black Prophet” — has lived on with such beguiling interest because when he was captured, in the wake of the rebellion and his 10 weeks of hiding ...
Wayne Osmond, founding member of the Osmonds, is dead at 73 I made too many withdrawals during the first 6 years of retirement to pay for cruises, a new car, new hobbies — now I’m worried. Can ...
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 ...
Exploring the history of insurrections and rebellions by enslaved people in America, and how the events of Jan. 6, 2021, fit into this context.
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.