The Politics of Contemporary Black Liberation
The 1831 insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia was one of the most successful and notorious in American history. Said to be anointed by God, Nat Turner organized more than 70 enslaved Africans to engage in a sacred war to free enslaved people. Collectively, they killed more than 60 white slavers and would-be slavers over two and…
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