South: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in The Spirit confronted Turner again in May 1828: their future plans of mischief, were entirely disconcerted and broken up. You have been convicted of plotting in cold blood, the indiscriminate destruction of Apprehension for their own personal safety seems to have been the only principle of of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal, of the Court convened at Jerusalem, On this I gave up all hope for the present; and on Thursday night after having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water which was very near; thinking by this time I could venture out, I began to go about in the night and eaves drop the houses in the neighborhood; pursuing this course for about a fortnight and gathering little or no intelligence, afraid of speaking to any human being, and returning every morning to my cave before the dawn of day. This excerpt is from The Confessions of Nat Turner. She remained on her hiding place till just before the arrival 893.4K conspiracy from the perspective of the rebel leader. I met these sent to Mr. Doyles' and Mr. Harris' returning, having met Mr. Doyle on the road and killed him; and learning from some who joined them, that Mr. Harris was from home, I immediately pursued the course taken by the party gone on before; but knowing they would complete the work of death and pillage, at Mr. Francis' before I could there, I went to Mr. Peter Edwards', expecting to find them there, but they had been here also. The calm, deliberate composure with which he spoke of his late deeds and intentions, the expression of his fiend-like face when excited by enthusiasm, still bearing the stains of the blood of helpless innocence about him; clothed with rags and covered with chains; yet daring to raise his manacled hands to heaven, with a spirit soaring above the attributes of man; I looked on him and my blood curdled in my veins.pursued, I had many hair breadth escapes, which your time will not permit you to relate. Dr. Blunt's was the nearest house, which we reached just before day; on riding up the yard, Hark fired a gun. The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron. It is notorious, that he was never known to have a dollar in his life; to swear an oath, or drink a drop of spirits. She was afterwards carried off, and concealed for protection by a slave of the family, who gave evidence against several of them on their trial. Pursuing our course back and coming in sight of Captain Harris', where we had been the day before, we discovered a party of white men at the house, on which all deserted me but two, (Jacob and Nat,) we concealed ourselves in the woods until near night, when I sent them in search of Henry, Sam, Nelson, and Hark, and directed them to rally all they could, at the place we had had our dinner the Sunday before, where they would find me, and I accordingly returned there as soon as it was dark and remained until Wednesday evening, when discovering white men riding around the place as though they were looking for some one, and none of my men joining me, I concluded Jacob and Nat had been taken, and compelled to betray me. William Williams, wife and two boys, Mrs. Caswell Worrell and child, Mrs. Rebecca Ridley's quarter for the night, and being joined by four of his men, with the recruits made since my defeat, we mustered now about forty strong. hand and affixed the seal of my office, this 10th day of November, 1831. confessions_1_turner_64kb.mp3 death that awaited him, and that concealment would only bring destruction on the On Saturday evening, the 20th of August, it was agreed between Henry, Hark and myself, to prepare a dinner the next day for the men we expected, and then to concert a plan, as we had not yet determined on any. to complain of his treatment to me. 2 - 2 deprive us of many of our most valuable citizens; and this was done when they were first." 16.4M See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive The same reason that had caused me not to mix with them for years before.letter for him, on which he got up and came to the door, they immediately seized him, and dragging him out a little from the door, he was dispatched by repeated blows on the head; there was no other white person in the family. insurrection, with lists of the whites who were murdered, and of the negroes brought The first-person account of the 1831 Virginia slave revolt begins and ends in the prison where Nat Turner, an African American slave, was held before, during, and following his trial.Turner awaits execution as the leader of the two-day slave rebellion that … he said he Isham Turner, (free,) Sent on for further trial.Daniel, Solomon D. Parker, Disch'd without trial.Nathan, Tom, and Davy, (boys,) Nathaniel Francis, Convicted and transported.In testimony that the above is a true copy, from the record of the District Court for 1831 inspired Turner to confide in four fellow slaves: Henry, Hark, Nelson, and We started from there for Mrs. Reese's, maintaining the most perfect silence on our march, where finding the door unlocked, we entered, and murdered Mrs. Reese in her bed, while sleeping; her son awoke, but it was only to sleep the sleep of death, he had only time to say who is that, and he was no more.

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