Many innocent slaves are massacred by vengeful…

Many innocent slaves are massacred by vengeful slave owners in the hysteria that follows Turner's rebellion, which puts an end to the self-delusional white Southern myth that slaves are either contented with their lot or too servile to mount an armed revolt.

Any significant southern sympathy for abolitionism now evaporates.

Turner had eluded his pursuers for six weeks but had finally been captured in early October.

He is tried and hanged on November 11, 1831; sixteen of his followers are executed also. (In Southampton County, black people will come to measure time from “Nat's Fray,” or “Old Nat's War.” For many years in black churches throughout the country, the name Jerusalem will refer not only to the Bible but also covertly to the place where the rebel slave had met his death.)