People could not bring black people together to teach them how to read and write. Because of the rebellion, new laws were made in Virginia. Slaves as far away as North Carolina were said to be connected with the rebellion. Three general aspects of white society in the months following the revolt are ex amined. The following essay attempts to examine some other aspects of the public response to Nat Turner's Rebellion. session of the Virginia House of Delegates. 200 black people were killed by groups of white people. the rebellion being the slavery debates in the. The state executed 55 people, but acquitted a few. At least 55 white people were killed in the rebellion. Nat Turner was born October 2, 1800, the slave of Benjamin. In 1871, the last term of the author's service as a teacher in the public schools of Virginia, was spent in this same county, with a people, many of whom per-sonally knew Nat Turner and his comrades. Turner was executed on November 11 by hanging. was reared, as his home was within fifty miles of the plawe of Turner's exploits. Gray is a pamphlet published shortly after the trial and execution of Nat Turner in November 1831. He hid for 6 weeks to avoid being killed. The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. The violent rebellion lasted two days until soldiers finally ended it, but Turner escaped. The Governor had scheduled about three thousand militiamen to stop the rebellion. After Turner and his fellow slaves killed his master and his family, they took their horses, firearms, hatchets and knives and continued on with their liberation. Some of these people were free, and others were slaves. He wasn’t that far from the North Carolina border. The rebellion happened in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. 30 days later he had a vision telling him to "return Turner thought an eclipse in February 1831 was a sign from God to plan a slave rebellion. When he was 21 years old, Nat Turner escaped from his master Samuel Turner following in his father's footsteps and hid in the woods. Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (Octo– November 11, 1831) was an American slave and Christian preacher. A wood engraving of the capture of Nat Turner
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