From the Atlanta Tribune:

AUGUST 21 1831—The Nat Turner slave re­bellion begins in Southampton, Va. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American his­tory. The charismatic Turner brought together between 50 and 70 Blacks (some slave and some free) to launch his revolt prompted by what he saw as a vision from God. As many as 70 […]

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