This Date in History: Nat Turner Confesses to Leading Slave Rebellion
Share
Explore Our Galleries
Breaking News!
Today's news and culture by Black and other reporters in the Black and mainstream media.
Ways to Support ABHM?
November 10, 2024
From African American Registry
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner confessed to his leadership in the famous uprising [more than two months prior] in Virginia.
Nathaniel Turner was a Black slave who started the largest slave rebellion in the antebellum southern United States in Southampton County, VA. The rebellion was controversial partly because of his methodical slaughter of white civilians during the uprising. In the slave uprising he orchestrated, 55 whites were killed.
See the original article.
Learn more about enslavement, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, and ways people have resisted throughout history.
Comments Are Welcome
Note: We moderate submissions in order to create a space for meaningful dialogue, a space where museum visitors – adults and youth –– can exchange informed, thoughtful, and relevant comments that add value to our exhibits.
Racial slurs, personal attacks, obscenity, profanity, and SHOUTING do not meet the above standard. Such comments are posted in the exhibit Hateful Speech. Commercial promotions, impersonations, and incoherent comments likewise fail to meet our goals, so will not be posted. Submissions longer than 120 words will be shortened.
See our full Comments Policy here.