Nat Turner

Of the handful of incidents that might qualify as revolts I do agree with Kolchin in calling Nat Turner's "the bloodiest."

The Slave Revolts Aptheker, Herbert 1988

The 1967 Pulitzer Prize winning book details the 1831 Virginia slave revolt led by Nat Turner, during which 56 white people, and many more black people, were killed.

Black History Month: Are Whites Entitled To Write Black History? The Huffington Post 2011

The 1967 Pulitzer Prize winning book details the 1831 Virginia slave revolt led by Nat Turner, during which 56 white people, and many more black people, were killed.

Black History Month: Are Whites Entitled To Write Black History? The Huffington Post 2011

While historians jostled to write about Nat Turner, who had mobilized fewer than 100 slaves, this diverse band of Louisiana slaves has been remembered by only a few.

Rebel slaves, silenced Jonathan Yardley 2011

In August, Nat Turner, a slave who had learned to read and was fired with a sense of divine mission, led several dozen slaves and free blacks from house to house in Virginia's Southampton County, liberating slaves and killing whites along the way.

A Free Mind, An Unfree Man Charles S. Dameron 2011

Confessions of Nat Turner as an eBook, hoping to reach a new generation of readers.

Black History Month: Are Whites Entitled To Write Black History? The Huffington Post 2011

William Styron, who told the story in his novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner," called this "the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery."

A Free Mind, An Unfree Man Charles S. Dameron 2011

Some of the fellows there included Nat Turner, the co-founder and CEO of Invite Media, which was recently acquired by Google, Matt Prohaska, the chief of SmartClip, Dan Ballister, the chief strategy officer at Market Maker Interactive and Ari Jacoby, founder and chief executive of AdCopy.

Silicon Alley Leaders Link Up 2010

Decades before Elizabeth Gilbert and Augusten Burroughs ate, prayed, loved, drank and dried out to the best-seller lists, if you wanted to be a household name you probably needed to win a Pulitzer Prize, like William Styron did in 1967 for a novel timed with civil rights, The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Marian Salzman: Public Mycasting System Marian Salzman 2010

Decades before Elizabeth Gilbert and Augusten Burroughs ate, prayed, loved, drank and dried out to the best-seller lists, if you wanted to be a household name you probably needed to win a Pulitzer Prize, like William Styron did in 1967 for a novel timed with civil rights, The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Marian Salzman: Public Mycasting System Marian Salzman 2010