On the tenth day of the rebellion, whites organized unit of militia of sympathetic plantation owners or bribe-able townsfolk, and called out regular troops to suppress the uprising. Armed with a few muskets and stabbing weapons by nightfall they had liberated nine nearby plantations and killed 55 to 65 white people and freed 350 slaves as they went from plantation to plantation they gathered horses and guns, freed other slaves along the way, and recruited other blacks that wanted to join their revolt. Now on the run their plan was to attack and free as many Plantations as possible, thus adding more to their numbers and strength. They begin Freeing the other slaves on the plantation showing them their former master's head as proof of their freedom inspiring others to revolt, and begin their great liberation of the South. They begin to kill all whites in sight and turn to the house and raze it to the ground, killing the master and his family excepting some of the overseers who made it back to the nearby town. It begins, joining fellow slaves across the plantation, they seize the opportunity and kill the guards and, freeing himself and his fellow slaves they capture any sort of lethal weapon. In addition, white militias and mobs attacked blacks in the area, killing an estimated 200, many of whom were not involved in the revolt Whites organized a militia and called out regular troops to suppress the uprising. Southampton County, Virginia on Augwith visions from God telling him to revolt against the White man, Nat Turner gathers about 70 or more of his trusted fellow slaves and snuck out of their cabins armed with farm tools, sharp stones, clubs and other instruments. 3.2 U.S and Slave Preparations before the battle.3 Battle of Blackwater River (Tupelo Swamp).Other slave states followed suit, restricting the rights of free and enslaved blacks to gather in groups, travel, preach, and learn to read and write. The Virginia legislature actually debated ending slavery, but chose instead to impose additional restrictions and harsher penalties on the activities of both enslaved and free African Americans. Nat Turner’s rebellion led to the passage of a series of new laws. The rest, along with 300 free blacks from Southampton County, agreed to be exiled to Liberia in Africa. Nineteen of the thirty who had been arrested were convicted and executed. "The insurrection of the blacks have made greate disturbance here every man is armd with a gun by his bed nights and in the field at work a greate many of the blacks have been shot there heads taken of stuck on poles at the forkes of rodes some been hung, some awaiting there trial in several countys, 6 in this county I expect to see them strecht ther trial nex week there is no danger of their rising again here." In a letter written a month later from North Carolina, Nelson Allyn described the retaliation against African Americans: In the days following the attack, 3000 soldiers, militia men, and vigilantes killed more than one hundred suspected rebels. They captured or killed most of the insurgents, although Turner himself managed to avoid capture for sixty days.Įven though Turner and his followers had been stopped, panic spread across the region. The local authorities stopped the uprising by dawn the next day. In the early hours of August 22, 1831, a slave named Nat Turner led more than fifty followers in a bloody revolt in Southampton, Virginia, killing nearly 60 white people, mostly women and children.
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