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- GLC#
- GLC04548
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1831
- Author/Creator
- Warner, Samuel, fl. 1831
- Title
- Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last...
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 38 p. : 1 p. : of plates Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
(title continues)... when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly massacred by the blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the blacks while under Sentence of Death. Printed for Warner & West. Includes fold-out leaf opposite title page with the woodcut "Horrid Massacre in Virginia." Foldout measures 19.8 x 27.3 cm. The Southampton Insurrection is also known as Nat Turner's Rebellion.
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