Who is Nat Turnner?

Answer 1

Nat Turnner was a slave who was born in va in the 1800. He had many slave owners untill he was bought by Joesph Travis. Turnner had the a birth mark that in Africa ment you were a prophet. When he was a kid he spoke with adults about local things that happened before he was born in great detail (as if he had been there first hand). He could read and write the other slaves looked at him as a religous figure.he could also make gun power (which he claimed he got revoultions from heaven) He ran away hid in the woods close to his master's home for a month where he was able to avoid the slave hounds. He came back b/c he said God told him to. He said it was a sign to revolt. In feb 1831 there was an eclpise Turnner took this as a comand to start the revolt. Aug 13 1831 the sun had a greenish tint ( an astnmical event) Turnner said this ment God was unhappy that he still had not started the revolt. So he asked 4 men to meet him in the woods turner was several hours late but asked them to help him start the slave revolt ( God's will) They started that night at thier masters home they killed everywhite person in the house. They murdered the master his wife, two childern with an axe and when they relizes they forgot the infant they went back took the baby by the legs and smashed its head against the brick fire place. When the sun came up they had been to 5 huses kiling every white good or bad in that house (including babies and childern). When moring light comes people beganing visting and finding the bodies and no slaves. Turner had cllected 80 slaves they had taken their masters guns and alcohol but when they are met on bridge by a malittia they split into groups. No one mets him (most were killed or captured) He hides fr 2 months untill he left the skin of an animal outside his cave and a hunters dog finds it / him. The owner turns Nat in and nat confesses and is hanged n Nov 11 18-- His body is then mulated and it is said they made purses and wallets of his skin and that a store owner displayed his skull in his store. In his revolted he killed 55 whites