On August 21, 194 years ago in less than a month, Nat Turner led a revolt. Dozens died. But what haunted white Southerners wasn’t the blood—it was the intention. The reading. The prophecy. The belief that enslaved people could think, lead, and judge.
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Image: Emancipation and Freedom monument at Brown’s Island, Richmond, Virginia.
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