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| Starting with a trusted few fellow slaves, Turner's force ultimately numbered more than 40 fighting men, both slaves and free Blacks, and most on horseback. They went from house to house killing every white person they could find, young and old, men, women and children. | Starting with a trusted few fellow slaves, Turner's force ultimately numbered more than 40 fighting men, both slaves and free Blacks, and most on horseback. They went from house to house killing every white person they could find, young and old, men, women and children. | ||
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Born October 2, 1800, Nat Turner was a slave whose 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia was the bloodiest slave uprising ever in the U.S.
Starting with a trusted few fellow slaves, Turner's force ultimately numbered more than 40 fighting men, both slaves and free Blacks, and most on horseback. They went from house to house killing every white person they could find, young and old, men, women and children.
The rebellion began on August 21, 1831 and, less than 48 hours later, it had been put down by armed white militias. In the end however, the rebels had stabbed, shot and clubbed at least 55 white people to death. After the crushing of his rebellion, Nat Turner went into hiding for several months. On October 30 was discovered and captured. On November 5, Nat Turner was tried in the Southampton County Court and sentenced to execution. He was hanged, and then skinned, on November 11.
In total, the state executed 55 Blacks suspected of having been involved in the uprising. In the bloody aftermath, close to 200 Blacks, many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion, were beaten, tortured and murdered by hysterical white mobs.