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2 Apr 2021, 3:30 am by Angela Fernandez
The book begins by explaining the shortcomings of previous accounts of Turner, attempting to reconstruct what might have motivated Turner to decide in August 1831 to lead a group of fellow slaves on a campaign in Southampton, Virginia, “to rise up and kill all the white people. [read post]
21 May 2012, 1:37 pm
Tomlins, University of California, Irvine School of Law, has published Demonic Ambiguities: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Nathaniel Turner’s Virginia as IC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-22. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 1:32 pm by Alfred Brophy
In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. [read post]
20 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Sandwiched between those two cases was the Nat Turner rebellion in neighboring Virginia during August of 1831. [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 3:02 am by Alfred Brophy
Sandwiched between those two cases was the Nat Turner rebellion in neighboring Virginia during August of 1831. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 8:45 pm
Stating that foreclosure scams are up considerably in the last few year, Alex Turner of the Virginia FBI is saying that the law enforcement agency is shifting its resources to fight these activities in the state. [read post]
29 Jul 2013, 4:34 am by Alfred Brophy
I've been talking about how the Nat Turner rebellion stretched into the North Carolina counties neighboring Southampton, Virginia -- and especially the beheading of a slave who had the misfortune to wander through Murfreesboro. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 7:00 am by Dan Ernst
Luke’s Parish, Southampton County, Virginia, now known as “The Turner Rebellion. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 11:56 am
Luke’s Parish, Southampton County, Virginia, now known as “The Turner Rebellion. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 2:14 pm by Alfred Brophy
 I just realized that there's a Nat Turner Boulevard in Newport News. [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 12:22 pm by Alfred Brophy
This evening marks the 182 anniversary of the beginning of the Nat Turner rebellion. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Turner had initially escaped, but was eventually discovered, tried, and sentenced to die. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 8:15 pm by Jon Katz
The great outcome in Turner arises not from any woolly-headed liberal Virginia appellate judges, but instead a faithfulness to the letter of the law and consistency in Virginia speedy trial jurisprudence. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Christopher Tomlins provides a luminous account of Turner’s intellectual development, religious cosmology, and motivations, and offers an original and incisive analysis of the Turner Rebellion itself and its impact on Virginia politics. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 5:44 pm by Alfred Brophy
Will in 1834, I'm calling the lecture "Slave Trials in Virginia and North Carolina, 1830-1834." [read post]
11 May 2021, 4:00 am by Karen Tani
" Here's the citation:Christopher Tomlins ingeniously reconstructs an event and a man we thought we knew: the tragic 1831 slave insurrection in Virginia and its near-mythic leader, Nat Turner. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 7:30 am
Styron’s Confessions represented itself as the autobiographical narrative of an African American slave, known as Nat Turner, who in August 1831 had led a slave revolt (the Turner Rebellion) in Southampton County Virginia, not far from the Virginia Tidewater region where Styron himself had grown up. [read post]