Nat Turner's Rebellionin a sentence
- Because Nat Turner was educated and a popular preacher, following the rebellion, some state legislatures prohibited education of African Americans and required white ministers to be present at all worship services.
- Nat Turner empowered and educated other slaves, and it led to one of the biggest slave revolts in history.† (source)
- And farther down in Southampton, Virginia, a man named Nat Turner was biding his time.† (source)
- Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned in the Santa Maria.† (source)
- Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready," Hester said.† (source)
- It was the story of Nat Turner.† (source)
- Some Douglass, some Brown-after John Brown, not Jane Brown; some Turners, after Nat Turner; Sumners; some Sherman.† (source)
- I dreamed of my ghostly benefactor, the slave boy Artiste, and the dream became somehow fused with the dream of another slave I had known about years before—Nat Turner.† (source)
- Nat Turner had been a silent, brooding slave.† (source)
- Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner haunted the Big House, too.† (source)
- As he talked she thought of Nat Turner.† (source)
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- Harriet thought that the ghost of Nat Turner had joined the ghost of Denmark Vesey, the carpenter and free man.† (source)
- He might be another Denmark Vesey or Nat Turner— She watched him and felt a prickle of fear run through her.† (source)
- After the Nat Turner insurrection, fear hung over the plantations from Virginia on down through Maryland, down to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi.† (source)
- Though one hundred Negroes were killed in the process of putting down this revolt, Nat Turner could not be found.† (source)
- They set out together, Nat Turner and his six followers, and at every plantation where they stopped, other slaves joined them, until there were seventy of them altogether.† (source)
- The Virginia Assembly met in December, z83 The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.† (source)
- And so when we get down to Southampton we can ride all over Nat Turner country, talk to people, look at all the old houses.† (source)
- Perhaps it was Nat Turner who spawned the flood of memories, the almost feverish nostalgia for the South that overwhelmed me as I lay there in the blossoming morning light.† (source)
- Nat Turner?† (source)
- The date of that encounter in Hoss's joyless attic was—like her April Fools' Day debut—instantly memorable, and remains so still, for it was the birthday of three of my heroes: of my father, of the autumn-haunted Thomas Wolfe, and of wild Nat Turner, that fanatical black demon whose ghost had seared my imagination throughout my boyhood and youth.† (source)
- …that set loose this flood, but it was also a letting go of rage and sorrow for the many others who during these past months had battered at my mind and now demanded my mourning: Sophie and Nathan, yes, but also Jan and Eva—Eva with her one-eyed mis—and Eddie Farrell, and Bobby Weed, and my young black savior Artiste, and Maria Hunt, and Nat Turner, and Wanda Muck-Horch von Kretschmann, who were but a few of the beaten and butchered and betrayed and martyred children of the earth.† (source)
- Nat Turner!† (source)
- He had not even heard the name of Nat Turner.† (source)
- The wrath of the slaveholders was somewhat appeased by the capture of Nat Turner.† (source)
- The slaves in the South, aroused undoubtedly by vague rumors of the Haytian revolt, made three fierce attempts at insurrection,—in 1800 under Gabriel in Virginia, in 1822 under Vesey in Carolina, and in 1831 again in Virginia under the terrible Nat Turner.† (source)
- Not far from this time Nat Turner's insurrection broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion.† (source)
- As I passed the wreck of the old meeting house, where, before Nat Turner's time, the slaves had been allowed to meet for worship, I seemed to hear my father's voice come from it, bidding me not to tarry till I reached freedom or the grave.† (source)
- After the alarm caused by Nat Turner's insurrection had subsided, the slaveholders came to the conclusion that it would be well to give the slaves enough of religious instruction to keep them from murdering their masters.† (source)
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