Noun
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
Source: WordNetNat Turner and John Brown were political prisoners in their time. The acts for which they were charged and subsequently hanged, were the practical extensions of their profound commitment to the abolition of slavery. Angela Davis
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. Mike Tyson
After Nat Turner 's slave uprising in 1831, North Carolina and other southern states reduced the rights of free blacks. Source: Internet
" citation Bisson, Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader (2005), pp. 57 58. Turner also thought that revolutionary violence would serve to awaken the attitudes of whites to the reality of the inherent brutality in slave-holding. Source: Internet
Capture and execution Nat Turner captured by Benjamin Phipps, a local farmer The rebellion was suppressed within two days, but Turner eluded capture by hiding in the woods until October 30, when he was discovered by farmer Benjamin Phipps. Source: Internet
He suggested that the "spiritual logic" explicated in Confessions of Nat Turner warrants study as "a harbinger of the spiritualizing violence of today's jihads and crusades". Source: Internet