Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion

According to Faragher, Buhle, Czitrom, and Armitrage (285), the "ultimate resistance" against the abuses of slavery was the "slave revolt." On a hot August night in 1831, Nat Turner, a lay preacher and slave, led a revolt he had planned after having a religious vision in which he saw "white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle" (Faragher, et al. 285). Turner and five other slaves first struck and killed Turner's master, Joseph Travis. Traveling from one plantation to the next, the rebels killed fifty-five

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