Nat Turner

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/30/2021
  

  Looking for Nat Turner

  Christopher Tomlins' new book takes seriously the apocalyptic Christianity of Nat Turner, viewing it not as a metaphor for liberation but a key part of how Turner understood freedom. 

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/6/2021
  

  Just Who Was Rebelling in Nat Turner's Rebellion?

  University of Kentucky Historian Vanessa Holden will discuss her new community-oriented history of the rebellion of the enslaved in Southampton, Virginia in an online forum on Thursday, arguing that women and children were essential in planning and executing the rebellion associated with Nat Turner.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Witness Against the Beast

  by Christopher Tomlins

  Nat Turner followed his evangelical faith to challenge a profane and degenerate slaveholding regime. Today's white evangelical Christians must decide whether to support the successor of that regime. 

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• 2/23/20
  

  He Said, She Said: In the Matter of Nat Turner

  by Christopher Tomlins 

  Nat Turner spoke while black and asks us all to listen. If we are to understand him – to understand what sort of man he was, by whom he was charged to act, on whose behalf he acted, and why – we have to begin by listening.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  10-21-16
  

  The Racial Politics of Nat Turner Tours

  The subject of an acclaimed new movie, the 1831 slave revolt led by Turner is also the focus of two tours, one black and one white, in a region still divided over Turner’s legacy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-18-16
  

  Historian Diana Ramey Berry praises effort to return the skull of Nat Turner to his family

  by Daina Ramey Berry

  Returning these body parts to descendants, or at least granting them a respectful burial, will help our nation heal from the sin of slavery and its ugly afterlife.

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• 10-15-16
  

  Why Nat Turner and the Southampton Rebels Killed Children

  by Sarah N. Roth

  The complicated matrix of reasons that went into the decision.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  10-9-16
  

  Nat Turner’s Remains Returned to His Family After Almost 200 Years

  After being in white hands for several generations, Turner’s descendants were able to retrieve his skull from a former Gary, Ind., mayor.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-2-16
  

  Tricky Goal for ‘Birth of a Nation’: Inspire but Don’t Incite

  Fox Searchlight has aimed a grass-roots campaign at churches, schools and pockets of political influence to ease the provocative film into communities on edge.

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• Another Thomas Jefferson Tried to Eliminate Slavery in Virginia

  by Thomas Fleming

  This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Part two of a three-part series (read parts one and two). Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Credit: Monticello.