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  1. Hello and welcome to my presentation about nat Turner.
  2. And before I start, please excuse any mispronunciations or slight
  3. pauses as this is a lot of information and long
  4. script. But let's get on with the video.
  5. All right, Who was he when that Turner was a
  6. black American slave who led the only effective sustained slave
  7. rebellion in US.
  8. history that resulted in the death of 55 people mostly
  9. conspiring of women and Children.
  10. What did he do?
  11. Will you just slightly heard at the beginning of what
  12. he did?
  13. But on August 22 1831, he led a rebellion of
  14. enslaved people.
  15. His actions set off a massacre up to 200 black
  16. people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the
  17. education movement and assembly of enslaved people.
  18. The rebellion started off of a small band of enslaved
  19. people that killed Turner's master joseph Travis along with his
  20. family as they swept through the countryside.
  21. Turner's men freed enslaved people as they continued the killings
  22. Upward 75 men joined them over the two days and
  23. killed dozens of white people, 100 of hundreds of federal
  24. troops and thousands of military men came together after the
  25. 48 hours and captured most of its participants except for
  26. turning himself.
  27. In spite of the intense manhunt, the ringleader remained hidden
  28. in the woods just a few miles from the Travis
  29. farm Where the rebellion began for two months.
  30. On August 30 1831, a farmer was walking across his
  31. farm which was just a few miles from the Travis
  32. farm and the farmer noticed some Brushwood collected in a
  33. manner to excite suspicion when the farmer raised his gun
  34. a week.
  35. Emancipated. Turner emerged from the fox hole and surrendered.
  36. Mhm. Mhm.
  37. The aftermath of the rebellion first turn his arrest, he
  38. was taken to South Hampton country, a small town called
  39. Jerusalem, Jerusalem and is now Courtland Virginia.
  40. He stood trial and was convicted of conspiring to rebel
  41. and making insurrection And was sentenced to death.
  42. Turner was hanging from a tree on November 11 1831.
  43. Second dozen stood trial for their participation in the rebellion.
  44. While some were acquitted, more than 50 were convicted and
  45. sentenced to death by a collection of 20 judges, 20
  46. judges and F.
  47. Y. I.
  48. They were all slaveholders.
  49. Mhm. Third states passed laws making it illegal to teach
  50. african americans to read or write whether they were free
  51. or enslaved.
  52. Mhm. Some quick facts about nat turner, he was born
  53. on october 2nd 1800 he died november 11th 18 31
  54. which means he was only 31 when he died and
  55. that's pretty young nowadays if you think about it.
  56. But back then that was normal as a life expectancy
  57. was 30 to 40 years old.
  58. He had a wife who was Cherry Turner and only
  59. one child.
  60. Rickets rick did Turner Did you know 56 black people
  61. were accused of participating in that Turner's rebellion and were
  62. executed and more than 200 were beaten by angry mobs
  63. or white Metalious.
  64. Also that Turner was, this is off topic from the
  65. first fact, but Turner was also an educated minister and
  66. he reportedly told thomas ruff and gray and a jailhouse
  67. interview published and the confessions of nat Turner that when
  68. he was three or four years old, he could provide
  69. details of events that occurred before his death.
  70. Not china's revolt contributed to the radicalization, the radicalization of
  71. american politics that helped set the United States on its
  72. course towards the civil war.
  73. This video was a nationally meant for black history month
  74. but it's never too late to be educated in the
  75. life of 31 year old Nat Turner, thank you for
  76. listening and have a good day or night anyways.
  77. Good bye.