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Nat Turner's rebellion  

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  • A bloody revolt led by Nat Turner, an enslaved selfproclaimed prophet, that took the lives of at least fiftyfive white men, women, and children in and around Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Turner believed that he had been called by God to repay the local white citizenry for the evils of slavery. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; Nat Turner's Rebellion]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-B77CL6LM-F

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