History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1837 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nat Turner and the Reaction
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The idea
Nat Turner's rising in eighteen thirty-one killed roughly sixty-five people, and Turner evaded capture until late October before being tried, hanged and quartered.
In practice
Virginia executing fifty-six others while vigilantes and militias killed two hundred more.
Where people slip
Unit 12 covers the rising itself and the Virginia legislature's debate. This entry covers what it did to the reform movement.
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