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Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County (Paperback)
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Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County (Paperback)
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In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a
bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white
people-men, women, and children-shocking the South. Nearly as many
black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its
aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents
important new evidence about the violence and the community in
which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims
and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The
Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources,
David F. Allmendinger Jr. reconstructs the lives of key individuals
who were drawn into the uprising and shows how the history of
certain white families and their slaves-reaching back into the
eighteenth century-shaped the course of the rebellion. Never before
has anyone so patiently examined the extensive private and public
sources relating to Southampton as does Allmendinger in this
remarkable work. He argues that the plan of rebellion originated in
the mind of a single individual, Nat Turner, who concluded between
1822 and 1826 that his own masters intended to continue holding
slaves into the next generation. Turner specifically chose to
attack households to which he and his followers had connections.
The book also offers a close analysis of his Confessions and the
influence of Thomas R. Gray, who wrote down the original text in
November 1831. The author draws new conclusions about Turner and
Gray, their different motives, the authenticity of the confession,
and the introduction of terror as a tactic, both in the rebellion
and in its most revealing document. Students of slavery, the Old
South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the
Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking
research and imaginative family and community history.
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