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Nat Turner's Stand Against Slavery
Did you know Nat Turner took a stand against slavery? Nat Turner took a stand against slavery by warning us that no black man could be a preacher through the county. Later on he became a leader of a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831.
His action set off a new wave to forbid the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and rigid pro slavery, anti abolitionist judgement that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–1865). He then became preacher chosen by god. Which led to making one of the most bloody slave revolts by leading a violent insurrection, and he hid for six weeks but was caught and later on hanged.
He was born on the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner, who allowed him to be instructed
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