Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia, the week before Gabriel was hanged. While still a young child, Nat was overheard describing events that had happened before ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. After his capture and arrest on October 30, 1831, Nat Turner was imprisoned in the Southampton County Jail, where he ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Negro History Vol. 5, No. 2, Apr., 1920 The Aftermath of Nat Turner's Insurrecti ...

click image for close-up This image portrays the discovery of Nat Turner. After state and federal troops dispersed Turner's forces, he escaped and hid in several different places near the farm ...

Bruce Lawrence Turner, great-great-great grandson of Nat Turner, recently spoke at the Courtland branch of the Blackwater ...

click image for close-up This drawing shows Nat Turner preaching in the forest. In his "Confession," Turner said, "Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow-servants..

I 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 man, and that I ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. This Bible is believed to have been held by Nat Turner when he was captured. Photograph by Collection ...

I was thirty-one years of age the second of October last, and born the property of Benjamin Turner, of this county. In my childhood a circumstance occurred which made an indelible impression on my ...