The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southhampton, Virginia, as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in the prison where he was confined. and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampto
Black slavery in America usually evokes images of the antebellum South, but few realize that members of the Five Civilized Tribes--the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles--in Indian Territory, today's Oklahoma, also had slaves. Lik
Early in the morning of August 22, 1831, a band of eight Black slaves, led by a lay preacher named Nat Turner, entered the Travis house in Southampton County, Virginia and killed five members of the Travis family. This was the beginning of a slave uprisin
In January of 1811 in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Orleans parishes, starting about 15 miles upriver from New Orleans, a major slave revolt involving over 500 people took place. The 1811 revolt was led by a man named Charles, a laborer on the De
The Creole revolt took place on November 7, 1841, well into her eleventh day at sea. The ship was at latitude 27 degrees 46 minutes north and 33 minutes west, about 130 miles northeast of the Hole in the Wall, carrying 103 slaves from Richmond (who boarde
There is a persistent myth that African slaves docilely accepted their condition, and many of us believe that there were no attempts in St. Kitts by slaves to escape their forced servitude. The following recounts the earliest revolt, the first in the isla
