The Only Use of
Nat Turner's Rebellion
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 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.†
p. 180.7Nat Turner = leader of 1831 U.S. slave rebellion in Virginia in which slave owners and their families were killed and slaves freed
Definition:
1831 U.S. slave rebellion in Virginia in which slave owners and their families were killed and slaves freed (about 60 whites were killed and then about 175 African Americans in sometimes indiscriminate reprisals)