Nat Turner

Nat Turner was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both slave and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Turner's Rebellion resulted in the death of 55 White people before state militias suppressed the uprising. At the same time, as many as 120 Black men, women, and children, many of whom were not involved in the revolt, were killed by soldiers and local mobs in retaliation.