Nat Turner was born on October 2 ... They decided to hold the insurrection on the 4th of July and began planning a strategy. However, they had to postpone action because Turner became ill.

The story of Nat Turner and his rebels is just one of these stories from the dark corners. The 2016 film The Birth of a Nation brought the rebellion to the big screen, shedding light, sparking ...

Kaye and Gregory P. Downs’ “Nat Turner, Black Prophet” — has lived on with such beguiling interest because when he was captured, in the wake of the rebellion and his 10 weeks of hiding ...

After his capture and arrest on October 30, 1831, Nat Turner was imprisoned in the Southampton County Jail, where he was interviewed by Thomas R. Gray, a Southern physician. Out of that interview ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831 ... More than 100 Black people were executed over the rebellion, ...

His book, "The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

Nat Turner is an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a cleric convinces Samuel that Nate should sermonize to ...