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Quarter 3: Nat Turner: Freedom Fighter or Fanatic?
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Social Effects
Pleasants, John Hampden. “Southampton Affair.” Richmond Constitutional Whig, 3 Sept. 1831. In Norfolk American Beacon, 6 Sept. 1831.
Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), 76.
Document C (Find page 212)
Cromwell, John W. “The Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Insurrection.” Journal of Negro History 5 (1920): 208-34.
Weld, Theodore Dwight. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2011.
Document E (find pages 19-20)
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 2008.
Political Effects
Garrison, William Lloyd. "The Insurrection." Fair-Use.org. Fair-Use.org, fair-use.org/the-liberator/1831/09/03/the-insurrection. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. Originally published in The Liberator [Boston], 3 Sept. 1831.
Floyd, Governor John. Letter to JC Harris. 27 Sept. 1831. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/gov-floyd-to-jc-harris. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
Document C (Start 2 sentences in.)
Garrison, William Llody. Letter to Laroy SutherlandHarris. 8 Sept. 1831. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/garrison-to-sutherland-sept-8. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond. 1832. Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, www.encyclopediavirginia.org/ An_act_to_amend_an_act_entitled_an_act_reducing_into_one_the_several_acts_concerning_slaves_free_negroes_and_mulattoes_and_for_other_purposes_March_15_1832. Accessed 23 Feb. 2018. 1832 General Assembly.
North Carolina, General Assembly, Assembly. Slaves and Free Persons of Color: An Act concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color. 1832. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, docsouth.unc.edu/nc/slavesfree/slavesfree.html. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly, Assembly Resolution 105.
Economic Effects
Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 234, Folder 80
Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 234, Folder 80
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Hearings. Testimony of Richard Porter. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/petition-of-richard-porter. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly.
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Hearings. Testimony of Piety Reese. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/petition-of-piety-reese. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly.
Other Primary Source Documents
"The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 6, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 2383-2389. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3444701357/UHIC?u=mcps&xid=986f2257. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 6, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 2383-2389. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3444701357/UHIC?u=mcps&xid=986f2257. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018.
Blackford, Launcelot Minor. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory; the Story of a Virginia Lady, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, Who Taught Her Sons to Hate Slavery and to Love the Union. Harvard Univ. Press, 1954.
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Quarter 3: Nat Turner: Freedom Fighter or Fanatic?
Social Effects
Pleasants, John Hampden. “Southampton Affair.” Richmond Constitutional Whig, 3 Sept. 1831. In Norfolk American Beacon, 6 Sept. 1831.
Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), 76.
Document C (Find page 212)
Cromwell, John W. “The Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Insurrection.” Journal of Negro History 5 (1920): 208-34.
Weld, Theodore Dwight. American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2011.
Document E (find pages 19-20)
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 2008.
Political Effects
Garrison, William Lloyd. "The Insurrection." Fair-Use.org. Fair-Use.org, fair-use.org/the-liberator/1831/09/03/the-insurrection. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. Originally published in The Liberator [Boston], 3 Sept. 1831.
Floyd, Governor John. Letter to JC Harris. 27 Sept. 1831. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/gov-floyd-to-jc-harris. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
Document C (Start 2 sentences in.)
Garrison, William Llody. Letter to Laroy SutherlandHarris. 8 Sept. 1831. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/garrison-to-sutherland-sept-8. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond. 1832. Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, www.encyclopediavirginia.org/ An_act_to_amend_an_act_entitled_an_act_reducing_into_one_the_several_acts_concerning_slaves_free_negroes_and_mulattoes_and_for_other_purposes_March_15_1832. Accessed 23 Feb. 2018. 1832 General Assembly.
North Carolina, General Assembly, Assembly. Slaves and Free Persons of Color: An Act concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color. 1832. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, docsouth.unc.edu/nc/slavesfree/slavesfree.html. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly, Assembly Resolution 105.
Economic Effects
Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 234, Folder 80
Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession Number 36121, Box 234, Folder 80
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Hearings. Testimony of Richard Porter. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/petition-of-richard-porter. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly.
Virginia, General Assembly, Assembly, General Assembly. Hearings. Testimony of Piety Reese. Nat Turner Project, Widener University, www.natturnerproject.org/petition-of-piety-reese. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018. 1831 General Assembly.
Other Primary Source Documents
"The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 6, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 2383-2389. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3444701357/UHIC?u=mcps&xid=986f2257. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, edited by Colin A. Palmer, 2nd ed., vol. 6, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, pp. 2383-2389. U.S. History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3444701357/UHIC?u=mcps&xid=986f2257. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018.
Blackford, Launcelot Minor. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory; the Story of a Virginia Lady, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, 1802-1896, Who Taught Her Sons to Hate Slavery and to Love the Union. Harvard Univ. Press, 1954.