Courtland, Virginia
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Courtland is an incorporated town in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Southampton County.
A view of Main Street in Courtland, Virginia
Mahone’s Tavern
Rochelle-Prince House
Southampton County Courthouse
Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Led by Nat Turner, the rebels, made u
Courtland, Virginia
…1831, the town became well known nationally as the site of the trials and subsequent executions of Nat Turner and some of his cohorts who had planned a major slave rebellion in Southampton County. During the rebellion, the county's planters sought refuge in Jerusalem and the state militia used Vaughn's tavern as its base…
"Nat Turner & His Confederates in Conference", engraving from Orville J. Victor's History of American Conspiracies: A Record of Treason, Insurrection, Rebellion, &c. in the United States of America, From 1760 to 1860 (1863)
Belmont plantation, where the rebellion was suppressed
Discovery of Nat Turner, c. 1884 wood engraving by William Henry Shelton, illustrating Benjamin Phipps's capture of Nat Turner.
Nat Turner's Rebellion as depicted in Samuel Warner's Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene, published in 1831