24 Dez 1830 Jahr - Nat Turner Revolt

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After Nat Turner had been sold to a craftsman named Joseph Travis he led the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history in 1831. After Turner, who was a very religious person, received what he saw as a sign in the form of an eclipse, he planned to capture the armory of the county seat. During the night of August 21, he slaughtered Travis and his family together with seven other slaves and made his way to the county seat in Jerusalem. On their way there they killed another 55 white people. Since his supporters amounted to only 75 Black Americans they were outnumbered by the armed resistance of local whites and a total force of 3000 members of the state militia. The rebels were stopped a few miles before the county seat and dispersed and then either killed or captured.

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