The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to Be Such When Read Before the Court of Southampton; with the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection.
The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to Be Such When Read Before the Court of Southampton; with the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a historical account published in 1831, presenting the confessions of Nat Turner, who led a significant slave revolt in Southampton, Virginia. The narrative reflects on Turner's motivations, including his childhood experiences and divine visions, as he recounts the planning and execution of the insurrection. This raw account explores themes of oppression and fanaticism, providing insight into the brutal realities of slavery in America and the catastrophic consequences of the revolt. The text serves as a crucial document in understanding the complexities of slavery and resistance in the United States.
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“Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.””
— Nat Turner
“It is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated! To free these people without education and with the prejudice that presently exists against them would be a ghastly crime.””
— Nat Turner
“The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived if circumstances had not pointed his future in a certain direction.””
— Nat Turner
“And what else did Christianity accomplish?” he said. “Here’s what Christianity accomplished. Christianity accomplished the mob. The mob. It accomplished not only your senseless butchery, the extermination of all those involved in it, black and white, but the horror of lawless retaliation and reprisal”
— Nat Turner
“That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.””
— Nat Turner
“And when white men in they hate an’ wrath an’ meanness fetches blood from that beautiful black skin then, oh then, my brothers, it is time not fo’ laughing but fo’ weeping an’ rage an’ lamentation! Pride!” I cried after a pause, and let my arms descend. “Pride, pride, everlasting pride, pride will make you free!””
— Nat Turner
“But oh, my brothers, black folk ain’t never goin’ to be led from bondage without they has pride! Black folk ain’t goin’ to be free, they ain’t goin’ to have no spoonbread an’ sweet cider less’n they studies to love they own selves. Only then will the first be last, and the last first.””
— Nat Turner
“AN EXQUISITELY SHARPENED HATRED FOR the white man is of course an emotion not difficult for Negroes to harbor. Yet if truth be known, this hatred does not abound in every Negro’s soul; it relies upon too many mysterious and hidden patterns of life and chance to flourish luxuriantly everywhere. Real hatred of the sort of which I speak”
— Nat Turner
“Hogwash!” he exclaimed. “Christianity is finished and done with. Don’t you know that, Reverend? And don’t you realize further that it was the message contained in Holy Scripture that was the cause, the prime mover, of this entire miserable catastrophe? Don’t you see the plain ordinary evil of your dad-burned Bible?””
— Nat Turner
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