A brief list of resources for further study and entertainment.
For more information and resources concerning Nat Turner, visit www.theresurrectionofnatturner.com.
Applegate, Debby. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion. 1966. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2006.
Brown, William Wells. Clotel. 1853. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2008.
Clarke, John Henrik, ed. William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.
———. The Heroic Slave. 1853. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2008.
Floyd, Governor John. Journal–Original. Richmond: Johnston Family Papers, 1779–1891. Personal Papers Collection. Richmond: Library of Virginia.
Greenberg, Kenneth S., ed. Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Haile, Rebecca G. Held at a Distance: A Rediscovery of Ethiopia. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2007.
Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The Kebra Nagast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek. Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge. 1992. Reprint, Charleston, S.C.: Forgotten Books, 2007.
“Southampton County Court Minute Book 1830–1835.” Southampton County Courthouse, Courtland, Virginia. Also now available online: http://www.brantleyassociation.com/southampton_project/southampton_project_list.htm#Court_Minute_Books.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2005.
———. Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Edited by Robert S. Levine. 1856. Reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
———. “Letter to Duchess of Argyll.” Andover, Mass. Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, June 17, 1856.
Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
Tragle, Henry Irving. The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.
Turner, Benjamin. Deed Book, Turner’s Meeting Place Deed to Nathan Turner, et al. Southampton County, Virginia. 1810.
———. Will. Southampton County, Virginia.
Turner, Nat, and Thomas Gray. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) by Thomas R. Gray, Nat Turner, et al. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska–Lincoln | University of Nebraska–Lincoln Research. Libraries at University of Nebraska–Lincoln. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/15/ Official court records indicate that Nat Turner pled innocent, offered no confession, and that William Parker was his defense attorney. Neither William Parker nor Thomas Gray read a confession in court. According to the official record, Levi Waller and James Trezvant offered testimony in court against Nat Turner.
Vikan, Gary. Ethiopian Art: The Walters Museum.Surrey, U.K.: Third Millenium Publishing, 2001.
Wilson, Harriet E. Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.1959. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2008.
“Art of Writing—Henry Ward Beecher.” Old and Sold Antiques Auction. June 4, 2011. http://www.oldandsold.com/articles12/writing-1.shtml.
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward. “Moral Courage: Extracts from a Sermon Delivered on Sunday Evening.” New York Times, 1860. http://www.nytimes.com/1860/04/10/news/moral-courage-extracts-sermon-delivered-sunday-evening-rev-henry-ward-beecher.html
“Black Soldiers.” Virginia Western Community College. http://www.virginiawestern.edu/faculty/vwhansd/HIS269/Exhibits/BlackSoldiers2.html.
Blight, David. “Africans in America, Part 4: David Blight on William Lloyd Garrison.” PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i2980.html.
Brooks, Jennifer. “Black Soldiers Celebrated as Civil War’s Forgotten Heroes.” Tennessean, May 31, 2011. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110531/NEWS01/305290095/1969/NEWS.
Brown, Chief Walt. Cheroenhaka Nottoway Indian Tribe Official Site. Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe Tribal Council. http://cheroenhaka-nottoway.org/.
Challinor, Elizabeth. Peace Research Institute Oslo. “A History of Cape Verde: Centre/Periphery Relations and Transnational Cultural Flows.” http://www.prio.no/private/jorgen/cvmd/papers/CVMD_Chall in or_Elizabeth.pdf
Davis, Paul. “Projo.com Digital Extra.” Providence Journal, 2006. http://www.projo.com/extra/2006/slavery/day1.
“Documenting the American South—Fighting Slavery with the Pen: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 196th Birthday.” http://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/stowe.html.
Drewry, William S. The Southampton Insurrection. Washington, D.C.: Neal, 1900. http://www.archive.org/details/southamptoninsur00drew. Born in 1867, Drewry’s account of the 1831 event makes allegations without attributions and, because of racial bias, is difficult to read. However, it does provide surviving local lore.
E. Bruce Kirkham Collection, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Conn.
EH.net—U.S. Agricultural Workforce, 1800–1900. http://eh.net/databases/agriculture/.
Early Negro Convention Movement. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31328/31328-h/31328-h.htm.
Ethiopian and Egyptian Art at the Walters Museum. http://www.tadias.com/07/12/2009/ethiopian-and-egyptian-art-at-the-walters-art-museum/.
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. http://www.eotc.faithweb.com/.
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Faith and Order. http://ethiopianorthodox.org/english/indexenglish.html.
“Family Accused of Forcing Homeless into Farm Labor.” Orlando Sentinel, July 29, 1993. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-07-29/news/9307290604_1_homeless-people-farm-labor-north-carolina.
Floyd, Governor John. Proclamation Concerning Nat Turner. September 17, 1831. http://www.virginiamemory.com/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/turnerproclamation; http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/Nat_Turner_trans.pdf. “Frederick Douglass.” PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html.
“Frederick Douglass—Abraham Lincoln.” Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation & 13th Amendment. Lincoln Institute and Lehrman Institute. http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=69.
“Frederick Douglass & Talbot County.” Historical Society, Talbot County, Md. http://www.hstc.org/frederickdouglass.htm.
Gondar Ethiopia Travel Photos. http://www.galenfrysinger.com/gondar_ethiopia.htm.
Greene, Ronnie. “Fields of Despair—2000s—MiamiHerald.com.” Miami & Ft. Lauderdale News,2003. http://www.miamiherald.com/2003/08/31/56963/fields-of-despair.html.
A Guide to the Johnston Family Papers, 1779–1891 (includes Governor Floyd’s diary). http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/lva/vi00706.document.
Guide to Speech and Photographs Related to Nat Turner. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu01760.document.
Haas, Christopher. “Ethiopian Icons—Early Christianity.” Villanova University. http://www29.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.haas/ethiopian-icons.htm.
Haile, Getachew. “Ethiopian Study Center and Curator.” Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, St. John’s University. http://www.hmml.org/centers/ethiopia/emml_curator.html.
Harden, J. M. “J. M. Harden: An Introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature.” 1926. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/pearse/morefathers/files/harden_ethiopic_literature.htm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/.
Ifill, Gwen. “Exhibit Shows Slavery in New York: January 25, 2007.” PBS. 2007. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june07/divided_01-25.html.
Historic Civil War Sites, Heritage Trails. http://www.hallowedground.org/.
“How to Hitch a Horse to a Cart.” http://www.ehow.com/how_2101069_hitch-horse-cart.html.
Hubbell, John T. “Abraham Lincoln and the Recruitment of Black Soldiers. Papers of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 2.” History Cooperative, University of Illinois Press, on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Association. June 4, 2011. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/2/hubbell.html.
“The Birth of Isabel.” 2003. National Geographic Magazine. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/feature4/multimedia2.html.
“Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living, by Clark Nardinelli: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.” Library of Economics and Liberty. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html.
“Irish Potato Famine: Before the Famine.” The History Place. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/before.htm.
The Irish Potato Famine. Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm.
Kahn, Carrie. “Modern-Day ‘Slave Farms’ in Florida.” NPR, July 14, 2005. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4753236 (accessed June 4, 2011).
Keyserlingk, Ela. The Weavers Hand: A Tablet-Woven Treasure; The Gondar Hanging. http://weavershand.com/cci.html.
“Lalibela—Lalibela, Ethiopia.” Sacred Sites at Sacred Destinations. June 4, 2011. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ethiopia/lalibela.
Leifert, Harvey. “Lightning Spurs Hurricanes—Link Shows Storms in Africa Can Cause Havoc in the United States: Nature News.” Nature Publishing Group. 2007. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070511/full/news070508-12.html.
Lincoln, Abraham. “The Avalon Project: Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln.” Avalon Project, Yale Law School. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp (accessed June 4, 2011).
“The Lincoln Presidency: Last Full Measure of Devotion.” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University. June 4, 2011. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lincoln/exhibition/question/index.html.
“Looking Ahead.” Lincoln at 200. Newberry Library and Chicago History Museum. http://lincolnat200.org/exhibits/show/thefierytrial/pressed/lookingahead.
“A Lot of Hurricanes Start Out Over the Ethiopian Mountains.” Ethiopian News and Daily News from Ethiopia. http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/16/a_lot_of_hurricanes_start_out_over_the_e (accessed June 4, 2011).
“Martha Washington: A Life.” Article reporting interview with Ona Judge Staines. http://marthawashington.us/items/show/4.
———. George Washington to Oliver Wolcott. http://marthawashington.us/items/show/7.
———. Letter Whipple to Wolcott on His Attempt to Capture Staines. http://marthawashington.us/items/show/21.
Maxwell, Bill. “Columns: Slavery Alive in Florida Agriculture Industry.” 2002. http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/03/Columns/Slavery_alive_in_Flor.shtml.
———. “Modern-Day Slavery Museum Reveals Cruelty in Florida Fields.” St. Petersburg Times. 2010. http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/modern-day-slavery-museum-reveals-cruelty-in-florida-fields/1081253.
Mystery of the Nile. Dir. Jordi Llompart. Perf. Gordon Brown. Egami, 2005. DVD.
“New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War.” New-York Historical Society. http://www.nydivided.org/VirtualExhibit/T2/G3/.
Newton, John. “Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade.” 1788. Open Library. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24362998M/Thoughts_upon_the_Afr ican_slave_trade.
———. “Conditions on the Ships” (audio). Abolition Project. http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/audio78744-abolition.html.
Nottoway Indian Tribe Met to Discuss Tribal Lands. 1821. Library of Virginia. Virginia Memory. http://virginiamemory.com/docs/10-27-1821_trans_ck.pdf.
Official Records of the Civil War—Chamberlain at Gettysburg. http://www.civil-war.net/searchofficialrecords.asp?searchofficialrecords=Chamberlain Gettysburg.
Pendygraft, John. “Slavery of Migrant Farmworkers Continues in the U.S. to This Day.” St. Petersburg Times. May 30, 2010. http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/slavery-of-migrant-farmworkers-continues-in-the-us-to-this-day/1098420.
Petition from “females of the County of Augusta” to the General Assembly, January 19, 1832. http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/AugustaPet_trans.pdf.
“Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, February 3, 1790.” http://www.ushistory.org/documents/antislavery.htm.
Potter, Ned. “The Real Home of Hurricanes: Ethiopia?” ABC News, July 25, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/real-home-hurricanes-ethiopia/story?id=5450407.
Proceedings of the Radical Abolitionist Convention, New York, 1855. http://medicolegal.tripod.com/proceedings1855.htm#p15d.
Raffaele, Paul. “Christmas in Lalibela.” Smithsonian. 2007. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/christmas_lalibela-200712.html?utm_source=relatedarticles.
———. “Keepers of the Lost Ark?” Smithsonian.2007. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ark-covenant-200712.html.
Randel, William Pierce. “The Humor of Henry Ward Beecher.” Studies in American Humor. http://www.compedit.com/henry_ward_beecher.htm.
Reddington, Amelia. “News with State’s Nod, Indians’ Spirits Can Walk Free.” Virginia Gazette, May 9, 2010. http://www.vagazette.com/articles/2010/05/09/news/doc4be68bb507e39790421078.txt.
“Senamirmir Projects: Interview with Dr. Getatchew Haile.” Senamirmir Project. http://www.senamirmir.org/theme/5-2001/gh/cup.html.
“The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.” http://www.archive.org/details/sermonsofhenrywa00beec/T2/G3/.
“Sermons and Studies by Godly Men: Fruits of the Spirit,” ser. by Henry Ward Beecher. http://www.bibleteacher.org/hwb_1.htm.
Slavery in America: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Unit of Study. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe Lesson Plan. http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_utc-douglass.htm.
Slavery in New York Exhibit. http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org/about_exhibit.htm.
Slavery in the North. http://www.slavenorth.com/slavenorth.htm.
Southampton County Court Records Online. http://www.brantleyassociation.com/southampton_project/southampton_project_list.htm#Court_Order_Books.
Southampton County Historical Society. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschs/.
Southampton Insurrection of 1831, Overview, Documentary. Perf. Kitty Futtrell. Produced by the Southampton County Historical Society, 1990, on videocassette.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Frederick Douglass. 1851. http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/stowedocuments/Letter_from_Harriet_Beecher_Stowe_to_Frederick_Douglass.pdf.
———. Libyan Sibyl. Sojourner Truth Institute, 1853. http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Archive/LibyanSibyl.htm.
“Teamed up with PAS: Black Images of Philadelphia.” http://www.hsp.org/node/2956.
Tiffany, Joel. A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of American Slavery. 1849. http://medicolegal.tripod.com/tiffanyuos.htm.
Tupac, Hacktivists. “African Lightning Stirs U.S. Hurricanes.” Discover Magazine. 2008. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/african-lightning-stirs-u-s-hurricanes/?searchterm=hurricane.
US Coloredtroops.org. http://uscoloredtroops.org/.
Vikan, Gary, and Leonard Lopate. “The Leonard Lopate Show: Ethiopian Objects of Worship—WNYC.” March 23, 2007. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2007/mar/23/ethiopian-objects-of-worship/.
Washington, Booker T. The Story of the Negro. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1909. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7067786M/The_story_of_the_Negro (accessed June 2, 2011).
Weidman, Budge. “Black Soldiers in the Civil War.” National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/article.html.
Whitman, Walt. “Leaves of Grass.” 1856. Walt Whitman Archive. http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1856/index.html.
“World’s First Illustrated Christian Bible Is Discovered at Ethiopian Monastery.” London Daily Mail, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1292150/Worlds-illustrated-Christian-bible-discovered-Ethiopian-monastery.html.
Zip Coon song. New York: Thos. Birch, 1834. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1834+360780))