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Panic and Reprisal: Reaction in North Carolina to the Nat Turner Insurrection, 1831
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21278
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This article examines the circumstances surrounding the slave revolt led by Virginia slave Nat Turner on August 21, 1831, with a particular focus on North Carolinians' reactions to the revolt and the chaos that spread in the days and weeks following the event.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 62 Issue 1, Jan 1985,
p29-52, il, por, map
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