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Nat Turner  

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  • Leader of one of the bloodiest slave revolts in American history, Nat Turner was born a slave on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia. He grew up on the farm of Benjamin Turner, becoming the property of Turner's brother Samuel upon Benjamin's death in 1810. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Turner, Nat (1800–1831)]

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