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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.
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Nat Turner empowered and educated other slaves, and it led to one of the biggest slave revolts in history.† (source)Nat Turner = leader of 1831 U.S. slave rebellion in Virginia in which slave owners and their families were killed and slaves freed
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And farther down in Southampton, Virginia, a man named Nat Turner was biding his time.† (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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Nat Turner had been a silent, brooding slave.† (source)
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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)
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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)Nat Turner = leader of 1831 U.S. slave rebellion in Virginia in which slave owners and their families were killed and slaves freed
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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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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 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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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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He had not even heard the name of Nat Turner.† (source)
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Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner haunted the Big House, too.† (source)
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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)
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The wrath of the slaveholders was somewhat appeased by the capture of Nat Turner.† (source)
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