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Nat Turner
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Nat Turner leads insurrection in Virginia

On this day in 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved man and educated minister in Southampton County, Virginia, initiated an insurrection that he believed was ordained by God. Nat Turner’s rebellion, known historically as the Southampton Insurrection, stands as the largest and deadliest uprising of enslaved people in U.S. history.

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