Nat Turner

Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 ? November 11, 1831) was a United States slave whose 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia was crushed. The rebellion, though defeated, was the most remarkable instance of black resistance to enslavement in the antebellum South and has become a reference of justification for the American Civil War.

Further Reading

• Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: The Environment, The Event, The Effects. New York: Humanities Press, 1966.
• French, Scot. The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
• Greenberg, Kenneth. Nat Turner: a slave rebellion in history and memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Tragle, Henry Irving. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.