The Washington Post, April 24th, 1994
WHEN A mystical slave named Nat Turner was formally hanged by the deputy sheriff of Southampton County, Va., on Nov. 11, 1831, after leading a short-lived but bloody insurrection, he could never have imagined the use to which his death would be put 163 years later. For Turner, whose inquisitive mind taught him to read and immersed him deeply in the Bible, saw himself, by virtually all accounts, as an Old Testament prophet called by God to lead his people. Like the vast majority of 19th century American blacks, whose spirituals repeatedly call forth the image of the Children of Israel in bondag...
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