The Confessions Of Nat Turner: An Authentic Account Of The Whole Insurrection

The Confessions of Nat Turner An Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection Nat Turner Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, Thomas R.

Gray of the said District, deposited in this office the title of a book, which is in the words as following: "The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R.

Gray, in the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal, of the Court convened at Jerusalem, November 5, 1831, for his trial.

Also, an authentic account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites who were murdered, and of the negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and there sentenced, &c. the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in conformity with an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to amend the several acts respecting Copy Rights." The late insurrection in Southampton has greatly excited the public mind, and led to a thousand idle, exaggerated and mischievous reports.

It is the first instance in our history of an open rebellion of the slaves, and attended with such atrocious circumstances of cruelty and destruction, as could not fail to leave a deep impression, not only upon the minds of the community where this fearful tragedy was wrought, but throughout every portion of our country, in which this population is to be found.

Public curiosity has been on the stretch to understand the origin and progress of this dreadful conspiracy, and the motives which influences its diabolical actors.

The insurgent slaves had all been destroyed, or apprehended, tried and executed, (with the exception of the leader, ) without revealing any thing at all satisfactory, as to the motives which governed them, or the means by which they expected to accomplish their object. Every thing connected with this sad affair was wrapt in myster