Draggingtree Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Nat Turner’s 1831 Brutal Massacre The following is a very graphic and long account Nat Turner’s massacre of innocents in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831, during which he and his followers brutally murdered over sixty white citizens: women, children and old men. This tragic event led to severe restrictions on slaves, free blacks, and the ongoing emancipation of slaves that had been common in the South before 1831. The South laid blame for the murders on Northern abolitionists who incited the slaves to such actions, and led to the South seriously reconsidering the value of political union with the North. Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide Nat Turner’s 1831 Brutal Massacre “With no large plantations, there were no large slaveholders, and [Southampton] county typified older communities where slavery was passing by personal manumission; the slaves and freed Negroes outnumbered the whites to make a potentially dangerous problem. To 6500 whites, there were 7700 slaves and 1500 freed Negroes. Slave and free, all Negroes lived in intimate proximity to the whites, a situation which did not exist on large plantations where overseers came between the masters and field hands. Field hands in that sense scarcely existed in Southampton County. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/09/nat-turners-1831-brutal-massacre.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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