Nat Turner and the rising in Southampton County /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allmendinger, David F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Turner, Nat, > 1800?-1831.
Turner, Nat, > 1800?-1831
1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.
Insurrection de Southampton, 1831.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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