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Nat Turner
Nat Turner is known for leading Nat Turner's slave rebellion (Southampton Insurrection). He lived his entire life in the Southampton, Virginia, where he was born into slavery. The uprising and its aftermath were low points in an already dark point of American history. Nat Turner approved of questionable tactics, and in the uprising encouraged the killing of women and children. Many children met very violent deaths. After the uprising, mobs of whites killed many innocent slaves that were not involved in the rebellion as retribution. Harsher slave laws were passed as a direct result, and literacy among blacks was outlawed in the state of Virginia. Nat Turner himself was hung two months after the uprising.
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How did Nat turner rebellion lead to the civil war?
it helped lead to the civil war by causing people to end the slavery thinking it wasn't fair for the others. Blacks
What effect did Nat Turners slave rebellion have on the US?
Nat Turner was the first slave to rebel and it basically encouraged other slaves to rebel. It also led to the making of slave codes which were laws or regulations that slaves, slave owners, and other bystanders that might see a runaway slave, would have to follow. Nat turner was also hanged as a consequence for rebelling.
How did Nat Turner's death make an impact on African American slavery?
At birth, Turner's master recorded only his given name, Nat, although he may have had a last name within the enslaved community. In accordance with common practice, the whites referred to him by the last name of his owner, Samuel Turner. This practice was continued by historians.
Turner spent his life in Southampton County, Virginia, a predominantly black area.
Turner had "natural intelligence and quickness of apprehension, surpassed by few." He learned to read and write at a young age. He grew up deeply religious and was often seen fasting, praying, or immersed in reading the stories of the Bible. He frequently experienced visions which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life; for instance, when Turner was 23 years old, he ran away from his owner, but returned a month later after having such a vision. Turner often conducted Baptist services, preaching the Bible to his fellow slaves, who dubbed him "The Prophet". Turner also had influence over white people, and in the case of Ethelred T. Brantley, Turner said that he was able to convince Brantley to "cease from his wickedness".
By early 1828, Turner was convinced that he "was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty." While working in his owner's fields on May 12, Turner "heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first." Turner was convinced that God had given him the task of "slay[ing] my enemies with their own weapons." Turner "communicated the great work laid out for me to do, to four in whom I had the greatest confidence" -- his fellow slaves Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam.
Beginning in February 1831, Turner came to believe that certain atmospheric conditions were to be interpreted as a sign that he should begin preparing for a rebellion against the slave owners.
On February 12, 1831, an annular solar eclipse was seen in Virginia. Turner saw this as a black man's hand reaching over the sun, and he took this vision as his sign. The rebellion was initially planned for July 4, Independence Day, but was postponed for more deliberation between him and his followers, and illness. On August 13, there was another solar eclipse, in which the sun appeared bluish-green (possibly from debris deposited in the atmosphere by an eruption of Mount Saint Helens). Turner took this occasion as the final signal, and a week later, on August 21, he began the rebellion.
Rebellion
Turner started with a few trusted fellow slaves. The rebels 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 white inhabitants 'thought no better of themselves than they did of Negros.'"
The capture of Nat Turner
The rebellion was suppressed within two days, but Turner eluded capture until October 30, when he was discovered hiding in a hole covered with fence rails. On November 5, 1831, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Turner was hanged on November 11 in Jerusalem, Virginia, now known as Courtland, Virginia. His body was flayed, beheaded and quartered.
After his execution, his lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, took it upon himself to publish The Confessions of Nat Turner, derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding and partly from jailhouse conversations with Turner before trial. This work is the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner.
In total, the state executed 56 blacks suspected of having been involved in the uprising. In the aftermath, close to 200 blacks, many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion, were beaten, tortured, and killed.
Before the Nat Turner Revolt, there was a small but ineffectual antislavery movement in Virginia,largely on account of economic trends that made slavery less profitable in the Old South in the 1820s and fears among whites of the rising number of blacks, especially in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions. Most of the movement's members, including acting governor John Floyd, supported resettlement of blacks to Africa for these reasons. Considerations of white racial and moral purity also influenced many of these antislavery Virginians.
Nevertheless, fears of repetitions of the Nat Turner Revolt polarized moderates and slave owners across the South Municipalities across the region instituted repressive policies against blacks. Rights were taken away from those who were free. The freedoms of all black people in Virginia were tightly curtailed. Socially, the uprising discouraged whites' questioning the slave system from the perspective that such discussion might encourage similar slave revolts. Manumissions of slaves had decreased by 1810. The shift away from tobacco had made owning slaves in the Upper South an excess to the planters' needs, so they started to hire out slaves. With the ending of the slave trade, the invention of the cotton gin, and opening up of new territories in the Deep South, suddenly there was a growing market for the trading of slaves. Over the next decades, more than a million slaves would be transported to the Deep South in a forced migration as a result of the domestic slave trade.
In terms of public response and loss of white lives, slaveholders in the Upper South and coastal states were deeply shocked by the Nat Turner Rebellion. While the 1811 German Coast Uprising in Louisiana involved a greater number of slaves, it resulted in only two white fatalities. Events in Louisiana did not receive as much attention in those years in the Upper South and Lowcountry. Because of his singular status, Turner is regarded as a hero by some African Americans and pan-Africanists worldwide.
Turner became the focus of historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker was publishing the first serious scholarly work on instances of slave resistance in the antebellum South. Aptheker wrote that the rebellion was rooted in the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system. He traversed libraries and archives throughout the South, managing to uncover roughly 250 similar instances, though none of them reached the scale of the Nat Turner Revolt.
Why did John C Calhoun want slavery to continue but Nat Turner want slavery to end?
They had very different positions in society which affected their views. Calhoun was a slaveowner who was raised by a very pro-slavery father. As such, he benefited from the practice of slavery because it meant who owned a prosperous plantation. He also disagreed with abolitionism as a matter of principle, because he saw attempts to outlaw slavery or limit its spread as unconstitutional. He was also able to justify the awful breaches of human rights and dignity caused by slavery because he chose to view it as a right, seeing black people as lesser beings who should be grateful because they were being "cared for" in the slavery system. Additionally, like many other slaveowners at the time he defended the practice because it was supported by the Bible.
On the other hand, as a slave who had suffered his entire life as a slave, Nat Turner wished to see his suffering end. Not all enslaved people were entirely unhappy, but all wished for slavery to end because it was a cruel, dehumanizing, back-breaking practice. Nat Turner is known for his violent reaction to slavery, by leading an uprising which ended in the deaths of over 50 white men, women, and children, but his desire to see slavery ended is understandable. Nat Turner also was killed in the uprising.
What is nat turners middle name?
He wasn't given a middle name at birth. His name was recorded only as Nat. He later was given the surname of his owner Samuel Turner.
Did Nat Turner have any siblings?
no nat turner didn't have any.
you can see his early life on the wikipedia
That statement is completely incorrect because I am one of Nat Turner's descendants.
Why did Nat Turner exclude privileged house slaves from his plot?
Nat Turner did not trust that the house slaves would keep the revolt a secret. That led him to distrust them for there were many times during that time period that the house slaves would leak information about the rebellions.
Was Nat turner guilty after the rebellion?
Yes, Nat Turner was wrong when he decoded to attack and kill people.
Is Jennifer Turner in Josh Turners new video?
Josh Turner's wife is not in Josh's new video "Time is Love"
Josh Turner has a great voice and does an AWESOME job!! <3
Who led the bloody slave uprising in Virginia in August 1830?
== == You may be surprised to learn the first uprising was actually in 1800 by Gabriel Prosser. Born circa 1775, near Richmond, VA. Died September 1800, Richmond, VA. He was an American slave who planned the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history (Aug. 30, 1800). His abortive revolt greatly increased the white's fear of the slave population throughout the South. The son of an African-born mother, Gabriel grew up as the slave of Thomas H. Posser. Gabriel became a deeply religious man, strongly influenced by biblical example. In the spring and summer of 1800, he laid plans for a slave insurrection aimed at creating an independent black state in Virginia with himself as king. He planned a 3 pronged attack on Richmond, VA, that would seize the arsenal, take the powder house, and kill all whites except Frenchmen, Methodists, and Quakers. Some historians believe that Gabriel's army of 1,000 slaves (estimates range from 2,000 to 50,000), assembled 6 miles outside the city on the appointed night, might have succeeded had it not been for a violent rainstorm that washed out bridges and inundated roads. Before the rebel forces could be reassembled, Governor James Monroe was informed of the plot and ordered out the state militia. Gabriel and about 34 of his companions were subsequently arrested, tried and hanged. 1831 NAT TURNER Born Oct. 2, 1800, Southampton county, VA, Died Nov. 11, 1831, Jerusalem, VA. American slave who let the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861-65.) Turner was born the property of a prosperous small-plantation owner in a remote area of Virginia. His mother was an African native who transmitted a passionate hatred of slavery to her son. He learned to read from one of his master's sons, and he eagerly absorbed intensive religious training. In the early 1820s he was sold to a neighboring farmer of small means. During the following decade his religious ardour tended to approach fanaticism, and he saw himself called upon by God to lead his people out of bondage. He began to exert a powerful influence on many of the nearby slaves, who called him "The Prophet." In 1831, shortly after he had been sold again, this time to a craftsman named Joseph Travis, a sign in the form of an eclipse of the sun caused Turner to believe that the hour to strike was near. His plan was to capture the armoury at the county seat, Jerusalem, and, having gathered many recruits, to press on to the Dismal Swamp, 30 miles to the east, where capture would be difficult. On the night of August 21, together with 7 fellow slaves in whim he had put his trust, he launched a campaign of total annihilation, murdering Tavis, his family in their sleep and then setting forth on a bloody march toward Jerusalem. In 2 days and nights about 60 white people were ruthlessly slain. Doomed from the start, Turner's insurrection was handicapped by lack of discipline among his followers and by the fact that only 75 blacks rallied to his cause. Armed resistance from the local whites and the arrival of the state militia, a total force of 3,000 men, provided the final crushing blow. Only a few miles from the county seat the insurgents were dispersed and either killed or captured, and many innocent slaves were massacred in the hysteria that followed. Turner eluded his pursuers for 6 weeks, but was finally catured, tried, and hanged. Nat Turner's rebellion put an end to the white Southern myth that slaves were either contented with their lot or too servile to mount an armed revolt. In Southampton county black people came to measure time from "Nat's Fray," or "Old Nat's War." For many years in black churches throughout the country, the name Jerusalem referred not only to the Bible, but also to the place where the rebel slave had met his death.
What was the outcome of Nat Turner's Redellion?
Generally speaking, being slave isn't fun. Most people don't like being one. Some people make that very clear by rebelling.
Who did slave owners blame for Nat Turner's rebellion?
Slave owners blamed a variety of people, events and things for making Nat Turner's slave revolt possible. Northern abolitionist were immediately blamed. They were accused of distributing abolitionist literature to black preachers, who were also blamed for the revolt. A warrant was actually issued for the arrest of William Garrison, the Northerner who published the Liberator", an infamous abolitionist magazine that actually began publication early in 1831. The slave codes (the laws governing the treatment of blacks) were also blamed for being too relaxed and lenient. Surprisingly even the "peculiar institution" itself was blamed by some whites bringing the usually taboo subject of emancipation to the forefront of topics discussed within the Virginia legislature. Of course white Virginians did not emancipate their slaves at that point, but instead decided to enforce much harsher slave codes. Some of the more superstitious from both races even blamed the weather. A strange atmospheric phonomenon had made it appear as though the sun was changing colors in Southampton County on Saturday August 13, 1831. Nat Turner's gruesome justice began on August 21, 1831.
Would the civil war happened without the nat turner rebellion?
Probably. However, uprisings like Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vessey increased fear among white Southerners. The fears were increased by support of the uprisings by people like John Brown, who the Southerners felt were supported by Northern abolitionists. The result was a lack of trust of people on the "other" side. .
What was Nat Turner's plan to attack whites in Southampton County?
Turner planned to go to Jerusalem, starting on a Sunday night because it would be easier to assemble on the usual Negro's free day, as well as the day that many went hunting for coon or possum allowing them to attract less attention. Turner and his men would then continue on their way invading property and killing every white person they encountered. As an early objective, they would stop at Mrs. Whiteheads home to get weapons, horses, and ammunition, as well as getting more troops. In the first day of the journey they would be halfway from their destiny. They would continue on their way and then "We should be able to sweep the rest of the country and arrive, triumphant, in Jerusalem by noon of the second day, our force swollen into the hundreds."from The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
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His mom's name was Nancy Turner but his dad's name is unknown because he ran away when Nat was born
Timmy Turner (as i know of) has no siblings, but his Fairly OddParents have a baby named Poof.
