Nat Turner was born into slavery. He was born on October 2, 1800. He was from
Southampton County, Virginia. Nat was very intelligent and spiritual. In 1821, Nat Turner ran away but returned thirty days later because he believed he was set with a vision. His master died a year after that, who then sold him to Ms. Thomas Moore. Three years later Nat Turner believed to have another vision. Then, another on May 2, 1828. In the beginning of 1830, his new owner was a young child named Putnum Moore, the child of Thomas Moore and her new husband Joseph Travis. In February, 1831 Nat started to create a plan with his four friends, Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam because he believed that there was a sign in a eclipse that occurred that day. Nat soon became ill which made the plan postpone. On August 21, 1831 Nat and six of his friends decided to kill everyone in Travis’ household at two in the morning while they were asleep, then they would continue from house to house and kill all the other white people. He felt that the sign was that on August 13 there was an atmospheric disturbance in which the sun appeared bluish-green. Nat had more the forty slaves that joined him to kill these people. Nat Turner used Travis’ farm as a hid out place but on October 30 he was discovered, captured and taken to county jail. On November 5
th he was sentenced to execution back at his home town court. On November 11
th Nat Turner was hung and skinned.
Because fifty-five
people were executed, many more were banished and about 200 innocent black people were killed by a mob of white people,
Virginia stated decided to abolish slavery, free the slaves and give more support and rights to black people.
I believe we can say thank you to Nat Turner in some form of way.
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