Turner burned for his freedom, but he also saw himself as a savior of his people. Following an eclipse of the sun, taken as a sign from the Lord, Turner and four trusted lieutenants embarked upon the bloody insurrection on the night of 21 August , beginning with the slaughter of the Travis family.
By 23 August, when the rebellion was thwarted by militia, Turner's rebels had killed almost 60 white men, women, and children. Turner escaped capture for six weeks, but eventually was caught, tried, and executed, as were some 16 others involved with him.
Though Daniel Panger published Ol' Prophet Nat , it was Styron's best seller that challenged black Americans, historians, and social critics, for it raised questions on Turner, black history, and the "true" character "Sambo" or "rebel" of the slave in the South.
He was executed six days after his trial on November 5, In retaliation for the abortive rebellion, nearly two hundred innocent slaves were killed. Although Nat Turner did not end slavery as he may have hoped, he nonetheless shook the institution to its core.
Pro-slavery advocates began calling for greater restrictions on free blacks and slaves in the South and made more demands on Northern whites to cease their interference with the servile institution.
Northern abolitionists , however, viewed the uprising differently and intensified their efforts to end slavery throughout the nation. Kenneth S. Greenburg, ed. View all US state worksheets. View all country worksheets. View all Seasonal worksheets. View all mammal worksheets. View all marine life worksheets. View all insect worksheets. View all Bird worksheets. View all natural world worksheets. View all earth science worksheets.
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View all Addition Worksheets. View all Numbers Worksheets. Then, on August 13, a strange atmospheric disturbance caused the sky to turn blue-green, which Turner took as a sign to begin his rebellion. A week later, on August 21, , Turner and his supporters began a revolt against whites in Southampton County. He killed the Travis family as they slept, then took to horses, and spread the violence throughout the county. As the rebels traveled, they recruited other slaves and stole ammunition from neighboring plantations, killing all of the whites they encountered.
Turner had initially planned to take over the county seat of Jerusalem and acquire more weapons from the armory there but was stopped by an armed white militia just outside the town. Chaos ensued, and the rebels were routed as Turner fled into the woods. Estimates of those killed in the aftermath range from to
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