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Nat Turner's slave insurrection...
Nat Turner's slave insurrection...
Item # 708033
September 03, 1831
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Sept. 3, 1831 Certainly the most significant report in this issue is an excellent and detailed account of the slave insurrection in Virginia, let by Nat Turner.
Nat Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21 that resulted in 56 deaths among their victims, the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern United States.
The report is headed: "Insurrection Of The Blacks" and takes over a full page with the details, one report noting: "...they were mere marauders bent on plunder, but having steeped their hands in human sacrifice, became infuriated and, like blood hounds, pursued the game of murder in mere wanton sport. As they followed their desolating career from family to family they pressed all the negro men whom they found into their ranks..." with much more.
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches, very nice condition.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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