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- Mapping rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.2
- Introduction to a series of primary sources about Nat Turner's Rebellion and the responses to it in North Carolina, including rumors of further slave insurrections and retaliation against African Americans allegedly involved. This page provides maps showing the locations of key events, the distribution of slaves in North Carolina, and the location of roads along which news would have traveled.
- Format: activity
- North Carolina in the New Nation
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the early national period (1790–1836). Topics include the development of state government and political parties, agriculture, the Great Revival, education, the gold rush, the growth of slavery, Cherokee Removal, and battles over internal improvements and reform.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.1
- In 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved man in Southampton, Virginia, led an insurrection in which a small band of slaves and free African Americans killed fifty-five whites. After the revolt, white militias and mobs hunted down blacks suspected of taking part in this or other insurrections, and southern states passed harsh new laws restricting the freedoms of both slaves and free blacks.
- Format: article
- By L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Horrid Massacre in Virginia
- Composite of scenes of Nat Turner's rebellion. Caption reads: The Scenes which the above Plate is designed to repesent are -- Fig. 1. A Mother intreating for the lives of her Children. -- 2. Mr Travis, cruelly murdered by his own Slaves. -- 3....
- Format: image/illustration
- Remembering Nat Turner
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.10
- A poem published in an African American newspaper, 1884, remembering Nat Turner as a hero. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: poetry
- "A sickening state of things"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.9
- Letter from Rachel Lazarus of Wilmington, North Carolina, to Eliza Mordecai of Mobile, Alabama. The writer describes the supposed plot of a slave insurrection in southeastern North Carolina and concludes that whites must live in fear until slavery is ended. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Insurrections in North Carolina?
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.7
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting alleged slave insurrections in North Carolina, and white responses to these rumors, following Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.5
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting the events of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.6
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting the events of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Hysteria in Wilmington
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.8
- Excerpt from the diary of Moses Ashley Curtis, a Wilmington tutor. Curtis describes the response of Wilmington residents to the threat of a slave insurrection in September, 1831, after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.4
- Article from a Raleigh newspaper reporting the events of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- "Fear of Insurrection"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.3
- Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, in which the author recalls the hysteria in Edenton, North Carolina, after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.6
- Excerpt from a book by a former surgeon on a slave ship, describing the horrors of the Middle Passage from Africa to America. Historical commentary is included. Warning: This document may not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- The book by Thomas R. Gray, allegedly containing the prison "confession" of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led an 1831 insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.
- Format: book
- Rutherford Trace
- In 1776, during the War for Independence, an expedition led by Griffith Rutherford sought to eliminate the Cherokee as a British ally and to punish them for attacking white settlements. In one month, Rutherford’s men left dozens of Cherokee villages in ruins with hundreds of acres of crops destroyed and livestock killed or seized. Residents of western North Carolina still tell multiple sides of the story.
- Format: article
