Sample Sentences forNat Turner's Rebellion (auto-selected)
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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 = leader of 1831 U.S. slave rebellion in Virginia that killed about 60 whites and led to brutal reprisals and harsher slave laws
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Nat Turner empowered and educated other slaves, and it led to one of the biggest slave revolts in history.† (source)
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He had not even heard the name of Nat Turner.† (source)
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And farther down in Southampton, Virginia, a man named Nat Turner was biding his time.† (source)
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Nat Turner had been a silent, brooding slave.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Not far from this time Nat Turner's insurrection broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion.† (source)
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Some Douglass, some Brown-after John Brown, not Jane Brown; some Turners, after Nat Turner; Sumners; some Sherman.† (source)
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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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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)
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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)
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The wrath of the slaveholders was somewhat appeased by the capture of Nat Turner.† (source)
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Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner haunted the Big House, too.† (source)
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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)
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It was the story of Nat Turner.† (source)
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