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- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- "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
