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Uncut Black Experience: Turner's Confession

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the confession of Nat Turner, leader of a bloody slave revolt.
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Website
Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
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University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South: The Confessions of Nat Turner

For Students 9th - 10th
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, this site provides the complete "Confessions of Nat Turner" complete with images of the original pages published of the confession.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Slavery the Peculiar Institution

For Students 9th - 10th
Opposition to slavery was growing as slaves rebelled, mutinied, or ran escaped from owners. View these resistance strategies through the following primary sources that include art, original maps, testimonies, newspapers, and letters.
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Library of Virginia

Death or Liberty: Nat Turner's Rebellion: To Rebel and Make Insurrection

For Students 9th - 10th
A library resource providing details on this famous insurrection of slaves in 1831.
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Afgen.com: Confessions of Nat Turner

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a copy of the confessions of Nat Turner on the night he was put in prison for his rebellion against slavery.