Nat+Turner

=__**Nat Turner**__=

Black Slave Preacher Nat Turner felt that god called him to lead blacks out of slavery. He was born on a small plantation in Virginia to an African-born slave mother who taught him to hate slavery. His master's son taught him to read, and over the years he became fanatically religious and served as a preacher for the slaves in the area. Some of his devoted family started to call him "The Prophet". A solar eclipse in 1831 was god's sign to Nat Turner that it was time to end slavery.

The biggest slave uprising in U.S. history started on August 21, 1831, when Turner and seven fellow slave's murdered his master and his family while they slept, and set out on a campaign of brutal murder that terrorized the countryside and murdered 55 white people. Picking up slave groups as they traveled form plantation to plantation, Turner and his followers moved through South Hampton and later got caught and hung.

=**__Nat Turner's past__**=

Nat Turner was born in South Hampton County, Virginia, in 1800. From Nat's Childhood Nat Turner claimed to here voices and see visions. He became a preacher and a influence to all of the slaves. 1

=__**Nat Turner's Killing Spree**__=

On Feburary 1831 Nat and seven other slave friends went on a killing spree. First Nat and his followers killed his master and his family while they were sleeping. Then they went to different plantations to gather slaves. Then the group of slaves went on a killing spree in the city and killed 55 people. Nat and his followers moved through south Hampton until a group of militia caught them. Nat managed to escape. The militia was looking for him for a few weeks and then they found him. After they found him he had a trial and they hung him. 2

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 * __http://www.biography.com/articles/Nat-Turner-9512211__**

1 http://www.nndb.com/people/937/000110607/

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASturner.htm

2 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASturner.htm