People could not bring black people together to teach them how to read and write. Because of the rebellion, new laws were made in Virginia. Slaves as far away as North Carolina were said to be connected with the rebellion. 200 black people were killed by groups of white people. The state executed 55 people, but acquitted a few. At least 55 white people were killed in the rebellion. Turner was executed on November 11 by hanging. He hid for 6 weeks to avoid being killed. The violent rebellion lasted two days until soldiers finally ended it, but Turner escaped. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic-this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. The Governor had scheduled about three thousand militiamen to stop the rebellion. Nat Turners name rings through American history with a force all its own. After Turner and his fellow slaves killed his master and his family, they took their horses, firearms, hatchets and knives and continued on with their liberation. Some of these people were free, and others were slaves. He wasn’t that far from the North Carolina border. As Nat Segaloff explains in his new book The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear, the movie would go on to spawn sequels, prequels, knockoffs, and even a TV series, which ran from 2016 to. The rebellion happened in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831. 30 days later he had a vision telling him to "return Turner thought an eclipse in February 1831 was a sign from God to plan a slave rebellion. When he was 21 years old, Nat Turner escaped from his master Samuel Turner following in his father's footsteps and hid in the woods. Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (Octo– November 11, 1831) was an American slave and Christian preacher. A wood engraving of the capture of Nat Turner
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