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1. Who Was Nat Turner?
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2. Who Was Nat Turner?
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3. Who Was Nat Turner?
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4. http://www.langstonarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/nat-turner-trio-copy.jpg

5. August 22, 1831:
55 White People Killed in Southampton,
Virginia

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9. Most of the information we have
about Nat Turner is in this book.

10. Most of the information we have
about Nat Turner is in this book.
Thomas Gray was a white man.
He spoke to Nat Turner in jail.

11. Thomas Gray wrote this book,
The Confessions of Nat Turner, after
the revolt happened in 1831.
(Did Nat Turner write the book?)

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13. http://www.sitesatlas.com/Flash/USCan/static/VAOF-600.jpg
Southampton County,
a small community in Virginia

14. Southampton County farmers grew cotton and apples.
They had small farms.
Not all white farmers owned enslaved people.
Most farms had only about three or four enslaved people..

15. Southampton County was unusual.
Many African-Americans who lived there were not slaves
--they were ‘free persons of color.’

16. Benjamin Turner was a Southampton County farmer.
He owned enslaved people.
An enslaved African woman, Nancy., lived on Turner's farm.
In 1800, her son, Nat, was born.

17. Some believe Nat’s father ran away to the North for freedom.
They say Nat’s mother hated being a slave.

18. When Nat was 10, Benjamin Turner died.
Samuel Turner, Benjamin's son, became Nat Turner's owner
Nat learned how to read.
He went to church meetings.
Bible stories influenced Nat Turner.
Reading and going to church were illegal activities for slaves in
Virginia but Samuel Turner did not stop Nat.

19. http://www.harleypinon.com/still_life_with_open_bible_candlestick_and_novel.jpg
tNat Turner was a deeply religious child.
He often fasted and prayed.

20. flickr.com
African-American and white people
respected Nat Turner.
They thought he was smart,
a skilled Baptist preacher and a bible expert.
He traveled and preached.

21. In 1822, Nat Turner ran away.
But after thirty days, he returned.
His friends were shocked.
(Would you return if you escaped?)

22. Nat Turner believed God spoke to him.

23. He said he came back because he had a dream.

24. God told me to return.
He said he came back because he had a dream.

25. Nat married a young enslaved woman, Cherry,
who lived on the Turner farm.
(How would you feel if you were separated from your spouse?)
When Samuel Turner died,
Nat Turner and his wife were sold to different masters.

26. Turner had another dream:
“I saw white and black ghosts in battle
...the sun was dark and the thunder rolled in the heavens…

27. Blood Splatter clip art
“…and blood flowed in streams.”

28. “I heard a voice saying,
‘…You are called...to fight the serpent."

30. February, 1831: Nat Turner saw an eclipse.
He said it was a message from God to start a battle.

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He heard another message in August.

32. Sunday night, August, 21,1831: Turner and his men made plans.

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Monday morning, August 22:
The men moved from farm to farm ‘to fight the serpent.'

34. At first, there were just a few followers.
Soon there were about 50.

36. On Monday, they murdered fifty-five
slave owners and their family
members.
People were shocked because
babies, children and women were
murdered, too.

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38. By Tuesday night, news of the killings spread.

39. Angry white mobs looked for the murderers.
Mobs forced free African Americans to leave their homes.
White mobs murdered 200 African-Americans.
Many were not involved with Nat Turner.
We don’t know the names of those 200 people.

40. Many of the men were captured
but the police could not find Nat Turner.
Turner was hiding.

41. Forty-eight captured African-Americans went to Virginia courts.
Some were sent away from Virginia.

42. August
September
October

43. After three months, a farmer found Nat Turner hiding in
the woods near Southampton.

44. After three months, a farmer found Nat Turner hiding in
the woods near Southampton.

46. http://www.virginiamemory.com/reading_room/this_day_in_virginia_history/october/31
The order to put Nat Turner to trial.

47. Turner went to trial on November 5, 1831.
His attorney was a slave owner.
The judge was a slave owner.
He said…

48. Turner went to trial on November 5, 1831.
His attorney was a slave owner.
The judge was a slave owner.
He said…

49. I am not guilty..
Turner went to trial on November 5, 1831.
His attorney was a slave owner.
The judge was a slave owner.
He said…

50. Thomas Ruffin Gray interviewed Nat Turner
in jail. He asked,
Do you not find yourself mistaken
now?”

51. Was not Christ crucified?

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Nat Turner’s lawyer was a slave owner.
The judge was a slave owner.
The court said he was guilty.
He was hung on November 11, 1831.

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Nat Turner’s lawyer was a slave owner.
The judge was a slave owner.
The court said he was guilty.
He was hung on November 11, 1831.

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55. Many people wrote books about Nat Turner.

56. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel about an enslaved man,
Dred, in 1856. Stowe was a northern abolitionist.
She got the idea about Dred from Nat Turner's story.

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William Styron wrote this book in 1968. Readers argued about it.
On one hand, many people learned about Nat Turner’s story.
On the other hand, some said the book was racist.
William Styron

58. Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker writes comics and graphic books.
He wrote this book about Nat Turner in 2005.

59. http://www.langstonarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/nat-turner-trio-copy.jpg

60. Write about Nat Turner.
—was he a religious, crazy man?
—was he a freedom fighter?
1.Write about Nat Turner’s background. (2 – 3 sentences)
2.Explain what happened in August, 183. (2 sentences)
3.What happened to Nat Turner? (1 sentence)
4.Your opinion: Support your answer with reasons. (3 sentences.)

61. Why should Americans of 2019 study the Nat Turner Rebellion?