What year did nat turner slaughter 55 whites?

Answer 1

Nathaniel "Nat" Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831. He and his followers traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing the white people they found. The rebels ultimately included more than 70 enslaved and free blacks. Because the rebels did not want to alert anyone to their presence as they carried out their attacks, they initially used knives, hatchets, axes, and blunt instruments instead of firearms. The rebellion did not discriminate by age or sex, until it was determined that the rebellion had achieved sufficient numbers. Nat Turner only confessed to killing one of the rebellion's victims, Margret Whitehead, who he killed with a blow from a fence post.

Before a white militia was able to respond, the rebels killed 55 men, women and children. They spared a few homes because Turner believed the poor whites in those homes 'thought no better of themselves than they did of negroes.' The 55 deaths represent the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern USA.