![]() People could not bring black people together to teach them how to read and write. Because of the rebellion, new laws were made in Virginia. Slaves as far away as North Carolina were said to be connected with the rebellion. 200 black people were killed by groups of white people. ![]() The state executed 55 people, but acquitted a few. Later on, he becomes a minister and uses his knowledge of the bible to. At least 55 white people were killed in the rebellion. Nat Turner was taught, at a young age, to use his ability to read to study the bible. Turner was executed on November 11 by hanging. He hid for 6 weeks to avoid being killed. The violent rebellion lasted two days until soldiers finally ended it, but Turner escaped. The Governor had scheduled about three thousand militiamen to stop the rebellion. Nat Turners name rings through American history with a force all its own. After Turner and his fellow slaves killed his master and his family, they took their horses, firearms, hatchets and knives and continued on with their liberation. Over the course of twelve hours beginning around 1:00 a.m. Some of these people were free, and others were slaves. He wasn’t that far from the North Carolina border. The rebellion happened in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. 30 days later he had a vision telling him to "return Turner thought an eclipse in February 1831 was a sign from God to plan a slave rebellion. This Framing Device allows Turner's story to play out in. A lawyer named Thomas Gray comes to visit Nat and record his story. As the story opens Nat Turner is in chains and facing his imminent trial and execution. It is a history of Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831. When he was 21 years old, Nat Turner escaped from his master Samuel Turner following in his father's footsteps and hid in the woods. The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 novel by William Styron. Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (Octo– November 11, 1831) was an American slave and Christian preacher. A wood engraving of the capture of Nat Turner
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