Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County /
"In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people--men, women, and children--shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the key account
- Part I. Masters
- A history of motives
- Lines of descent: the Turners
- Alliances: Turner, Francis, Reese
- Successors: Capt. Moore and Mr. Travis
- Part II. The rising
- The inner circle
- The zigzag course
- Toward the town
- The rising
- Suppression
- Part III. Telling evidence
- The inquiry
- Confession
- Closing scenes.