Nat Turner
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Nat Turner was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both slave and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
Discovery of Nat Turner by William Henry Shelton
An illustration of rebellion from 1831
Title page of The Confessions of Nat Turner
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans, as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was
Nat Turner
…Thomas Ruffin Gray, who published The Confessions of Nat Turner in November 1831. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Nat Turner on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Turner has been depicted in films, literature, and plays, as well as many scholarly works. Turner was born into slavery on October 2, 1800, in Southampton…
100 Greatest African Americans