Nat Turner Quotes

“After the alarm caused by Nat Turner's insurrection had subsided, the slaveholders came to the conclusion that it would be well to give the slaves enough of religious instruction to keep them from murdering their masters.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“If Samuel Sharpe had been trying to seize the attention of the mother country – just as Nat Turner had given the American South a brief window through which to reconsider slavery – he succeeded far beyond what he might have hoped. Never before had enslaved people spoken so loudly in Britain.”
― Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire