You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it.—To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born.


The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)


You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it.—To do so I must go back to...

You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it.—To do so I must go back to...

You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it.—To do so I must go back to...

You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it.—To do so I must go back to...