The leader of the late insurrections
in Southampton, Va.
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, Nov. 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.
Baltimore:
Published by Thomas R. Gray.
Lucas & Denver, print.
1831
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.”
Edmund
J. Lee, Clerk of the District.
In testimony
that the above is a true copy,
from the record of the
District Court for
(Seal.) the District of Columbia,
I, Edmund J.
Lee, the Clerk thereof,
have hereunto
set my hand and affixed
the seal of my
office, this 10th day
of November, 1831.
Edmund
J. Lee, C.D.C.
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
