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 ...

As time and perspectives change — for descendants of victims white and Black — a skull reputed to be that of Nat Turner rests in a lab at the Smithsonian. It's been there for more than four years.

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 ...

Redemption.” tells the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831 that killed more than 60 white slave-owners. The play will be showing at ...

In the New York Theatre Workshop play ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion faces a long, dark night of the soul before his execution.

In 1831, during a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, several people were killed at the site of the Whitehead house. Today, this is all that remains.