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Nat Turner

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Today, many people are aware that Nat Turner led what was probably the most famous slave resurrection in American history. However, when word flashed across Virginia in the later summer of 1831 that an individual named Nat Turner had led a violent slave revolt and still remained at large, it took the state's governor almost a month to get an accurate enough description of Turner to publicize a reward for his arrest (Wood 22). Today, Turner is an important historical figure because he led the slave uprising that inflicted the most severe blow on slave owners during the whole period of slavery in the United States. But he is also important because research into his life has led to greater knowledge and better understanding of slave resistance in the antebellum South (Wikipedia 1). This research has led to greater understanding of the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system and the roughly 250 instances of other similar slave insur

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