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It was important because it was a turning point. He was a man who was fed up and he did order is posse to kill all white people. This attitude is not good, but it is something that is understandable in context. If you were treated like an animal your entire life, denied your rights as a human being, you may very well snap too.

He killed 60 white people, mainly children.

But the reaction was extraordinary. He and his posse were rounded up, they were executed including Turner. And many blacks throughout Virginia were murdered, guilty or not.

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