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Preferred Citation

Speech and Photographs Relating to Nat Turner's Insurrection, Accession #10673, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was donated to the Library by J. Connell Shearin, Jr., of Winston-Salem, North Carolina on December 30, 1985.

Scope and Content Information

This collection contains sixty-two photographs of scenes, persons, and artifacts pertaining to the Nat Turner rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, together with a thirty-three page typescript and holograph text for a talk entitled "Nat Turner's Insurrection " given by the donor's mother.

Included are photographs or prints of Nat Turner (1800-1831), Hardie Musgrave, and Collin Kitchen (1806- ); residences of John T. Barrow [Tom Barrow], Benjamin and Simon Blunt, Lavinia, Nathaniel, and Salathial Francis, James W. Parker, Thomas Jefferson Pretlow, Thomas Ridley, George Henry Thomas (1816-1870), Joseph Travis, and Henry and Rebecca Vaughan; and scenes in Cross Keys, Jerusalem, and Southampton County, Virginia. Some of the persons and places are referred to in the speech.

Forty of the photographs were published in William Sidney Drewry The Southampton Insurrection.

Several photographs were published in Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: a Compilation of Source Material.