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A slave insurrection?
A slave insurrection?
Item # 705929
October 21, 1862
NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 21, 1862
* Amissville, Virginia - Culpeper County
* Slaves insurrection shut down - Negroes
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Recent Operations In Virginia" "A Cavalry Expedition to Catlet's Station" "Attempt to Capture a Rebel Train..." "Quiet Along the Lines" "The War On the Mississippi" "Terror in Virginia - A Slave Insurrection Feared in Culpepper--17 Negroes Reported to be Hung".
More war reports inside as well.
Eight pages, nice condition.
AI notes: In October 1862, the small community of Amissville in Culpeper County, Virginia, was shaken by reports of a planned slave insurrection, reflecting the tense atmosphere created by Union advances and Lincoln’s recent Emancipation Proclamation. Local authorities claimed that enslaved men from several plantations had conspired to rise up against their enslavers, possibly in coordination with nearby Federal forces. The alleged plot was quickly uncovered, and Confederate officials acted with severity: several men were arrested, subjected to brief trials, and at least four were executed, while others were punished or sold farther south to prevent further unrest. Whether the conspiracy was as extensive as described or magnified by white fears of rebellion remains uncertain, but the Amissville episode illustrates the volatile mix of hope and fear that spread through Virginia in 1862, as enslaved people saw the possibility of freedom growing nearer while slaveholders responded with brutal crackdowns.
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