NAT TURNER REBELLION: (Singing) My friend Nat, though our eyes never met, no, no. My friend Nat - mmm hmm, Lord have mercy - though our eyes never met. And our voices so distant apart, ...

Book Review. Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History. By Anthony J. Kaye and Gregory P. Downs Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 352 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may ...

Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831: Resource Bank Contents: Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia, the week before Gabriel was hanged.

I t was in August of 1831 that Nat Turner led a rebellion of Virginia slaves that left dozens of people dead, including small children. One-hundred and eighty-five years ago this week, in the ...

Nat Turner, the most famous slave rebel in American history, has always been a mysterious, troubling and important figure. In both history and in popular memory, few names in the long American ...

Black people accused of participating in Nat Turner's Rebellion were executed, and more than 200 others who were not involved in the revolt were beaten and killed by angry mobs or white militias.

Anthony E. Kaye and Gregory P. Downs’s “Nat Turner, Black Prophet: ... In the second half, the authors re-create the lead-up to and legacies of Nat’s rebellion.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) now has on view a larger-than-life, vibrant depiction of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion by artist Christopher Myers.The ...

Black people accused of participating in Nat Turner’s Rebellion were executed, and more than 200 others who were not involved in the revolt were beaten and killed by angry mobs or white militias.