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Warner, Samuel, fl. 1831 Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04548 Author/Creator: Warner, Samuel, fl. 1831 Place Written: s.l. Type: Book Date: 1831 Pagination: 1 v. : 38 p. : 1 p. : of plates Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy

(title continues)... when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly massacred by the blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the blacks while under Sentence of Death. Printed for Warner & West. Includes fold-out leaf opposite title page with the woodcut "Horrid Massacre in Virginia." Foldout measures 19.8 x 27.3 cm. The Southampton Insurrection is also known as Nat Turner's Rebellion.

Warner, Samuel, fl. 1831

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