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Oh, I'm so miser'blel Ijest wants to die. But I'm skeered of dyin'. Kin all men have pride? Kin all men be redeemed?” “Yes,” I said, “all men can have pride. And all men can be redeemed—by baptism in the Spirit.
Nat Turner, enslaved preacher and prophet, marshaled dozens of his followers for a violent revolt that left fifty-five white people dead in Southampton County, Virginia. As the myth of the...
Excerpt from The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va: As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to Be Such When Read Before ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. , As Fully and Voluntarily Made...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Nat Turner. managed so far to put it into execution, as to deprive us of many of our most valuable citizens; and this was done when they were asleep, and defenceless; under circumstances shocking to humanity. And while upon this part of ...
The Confessions of Nat Turner, Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va: As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thos....
The Confessions of Nat Turner: An Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection. Nat Turner was an American slave who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831.
Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., As Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray (Richmond: Thomas R. Gray, 1832), pp. 7-22. But the confession has an unmistakable ...