NAT TURNER Nat Turner was born as a slave on Benjamin Turner's plantation in Southampton County, Virginia on October 2, 1800 (www.encarta.com), five days before the execution of African American revolutionary Gabriel Prosser, who had planned a slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia. Turner's father also worked at that plantation but he ran away and his name is unknown. His mother was a slave named Nancy who was kidnapped from Africa in 1793. (www.afroamhistory.about.com). …
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…be hanged they asked him if he regretted what he had done and he answered " Was Jesus not crucified? "(www.africana.com) Bibliography US History Textbook, Cayton, Perry, Reed and Winkler, 2003, Prentice Hall. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568694/Nat_Turner.html http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blturner_confession1.htm http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00711.html www.africana.com/research/encarta/tt_271.asp www.biography-dictionary.com/Nat-Turner.htm www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0849756.html