In this excerpt from Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene which was Witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August Last…, Samuel Warner’s 1831 account of Nat Turner’s Revolt, Warner compares Turner’s uprising to the Haitian Revolution. His detailed description of the revolution shows its lasting legacy in the minds of white Virginians. Warner was the first person to write an account of Turner’s revolt.
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