The Solar Eclipse and the Nat Turner Rebellion
The Sign That Prompted America’s Deadliest Slave Revolt
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6 min readApr 8, 2024
Two things you wouldn’t expect to see mentioned in the same paragraph are a solar eclipse and the Nat Turner Rebellion, yet they are related. In early 1831, the highly religious Turner was already considering options to pursue his own freedom and that of his people. On February 12, 1831, the…
