Useful Links
10 things you may not know about Nat Turner's Rebellion
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nat-turners-rebellion
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nat-turners-rebellion
Primary & Secondary Sources
Anonymus to governor John Floyd
https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/anon24.htm Citizens to governor John Floyd https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/citizens27.htm Williamson Mann, Chesterfield, to Benn Lee, Richmond, https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/mann26.htm Joe to “brother” https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/joe23.htm Resolutions of Inhabitants of Chesterfield County https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/resolution28.htm Proclamation by Governor John Floyd https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/proclamation25.htm Norborne E Sutton to Governor John Floyd https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/sutton29.htm Trial of Nat Turner, Southampton Country https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/natturner/trial.htm |
A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Nelson Allyn (1831)
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/nat-turner%E2%80%99s-rebellion-1831 Thomas R. Gray, met Nat Turner in prison and recorded his account of the slave rebellion in August, 1831. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/confessions-of-nat-turner-the-1831/ The primary sources came from citizens of North Carolina and newspapers from North Carolina at the time of Nat Turner’s rebellion. Secondary sources include two books and an article on the Nat Turner Rebellion, which include brief information on its effects in North Carolina, a section on slavery in a textbook on North Carolina, and book that is about antebellum slavery in the United States. https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/exhibits/show/slave-rebellion-enemies/references/references |
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Mapping Rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
- "Fear of Insurrection"
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
- Insurrections in North Carolina?
- Hysteria in Wilmington
- "A sickening state of things"
- Remembering Nat Turner
Lessons
Additional Resources
resources on slave resistance
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/online-exhibitions/slave-resistance
In the 1800s, particularly after Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831, the legislatures of slave states passed increasingly strict laws governing the activities of enslaved and free African Americans and the interactions between whites and blacks. Known as slave codes, the laws generally restricted the right of enslaved African Americans to travel, assemble, marry, practice religion, and learn to read and write. Those free blacks who were allowed to stay in a slave state also saw their rights curtailed.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/slave-patrol-contract-1856