jan 1, 1831 - Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)t

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
Date: August 21–23, 1831
Description: Nat Turner, an enslaved African American, led a violent slave revolt in Virginia, killing about 60 white people before being suppressed. Turner was eventually captured and executed.
Impact: The rebellion terrified the South, leading to harsher laws against enslaved people and free Black people. In the North, it fueled the abolitionist movement, as many saw it as evidence of the brutal realities of slavery.

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