ASIN: B00IN44YGQ
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 32
*Includes pictures.*Includes Turner's own words about his life and slave rebellion.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents. “The late insurrection in Southampton has greatly excited the public mind, and led to a thousand idle, exaggerated and mischievous reports. It is the first instance in our history of an open rebellion of the slaves, and attended with such atrocious circumstances of cruelty and destruction, as could not fail to leave a deep impression, not only upon the minds of the community where this fearful tragedy was wrought, but throughout every portion of our country, in which this population is to be found.” – Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat TurnerA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series ...
