![]() ![]() John Brown may have taken Turner as his model when he launched his own doomed plot to arm and free blacks at Harpers Ferry, in 1859. But the insurrection also stirred the antislavery movement and shattered the prevailing notion that slaves were docile, or incapable of fighting for their freedom. ![]() Virginia blacks, both slave and free, lost some of their few liberties in the aftermath of the revolt. Describes the revolt, in which fifty-seven whites died. Mentions William Styron's novel, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and talk of a movie by Spike Lee. His insurrection was one of the very few slave revolts in American history. Turner was a slave whose rebellion contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War, three decades later. Writer tells about empty houses in Southhampton County, Virginia, where the rebellion took place. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion. ![]()
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