Fifty-seven white people have been ruthlessly slain…

August 1831 CE

Fifty-seven white people have been ruthlessly slain in two days and nights.

Turner's insurrection is crippled by lack of discipline among his followers and by the fact that only seventy-five blacks rally to his cause.

Armed resistance from the local whites and the arrival of the state militia—a total force of three thousand men—provides the final crushing blow.

On August 24, only a few miles from the county seat the militia disperses the insurgents, killing at least forty, and probably twice that.

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Courtland Southampton Virginia United States View →

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Nat Turner View →

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Virginia, Commonwealth of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View →

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U.S. Rebellions: 1828-1839 View → Nat Turner's slave rebellion (Southampton Insurrection) View →

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