Finding the Bones of Nat Turner, American Rebel
Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion struck fear throughout the slaveholding South, which sought to quash his legacy. Historians are making new discoveries about the enslaved preacher and his rebels in an effort to reclaim his story.
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.
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