![]() ![]() ![]() Domingo, and elsewhere, and encouraged them with the assurance that a similar effort on their part, could not fail to produce a similar effect, and not only restore them to liberty but would produce them wealth and ease!. ![]() Edward Travis) who had been taught to read and write, and who hypocritically and the better to enable him to effect his nefarious design, assumed the character of a Preacher, and as such as sometimes permitted to visit and associate himself with many of the Plantation Negroes, for the purpose (as was by him artfully represented) of christianizing and to teach them the propriety of their remaining faithful and obedient to their masters but, in reality, to persuade and to prepare them in the most sly and artful manner to become the instruments of their slaughter!-in this he too well succeeded, by representing to the poor deluded wretches the Blessings of Liberty, and the inhumanity and injustice of their being forced like brutes from the land of their nativity, and doomed without fault or crime to perpetual bondage, and by those who were not more entitled to their liberty than themselves!-and he too represented to them the happy effects which had attended the united efforts of their brethren in St. The melancholy and bloody event was as sudden and unexpected, as unprecedented for cruelty-for many months previous an artful black, known by the name of Nat Turner, (a slave of Mr. Domingo of its white inhabitants-but, these fears have never been realized even in a small degree, until the fatal morning of the 22d of August last, when it fell to the lot of the inhabitants of a thinly settled township of Southampton county (Virginia) to witness a scene horrid in the extreme!-when FIFTY FIVE innocent persons (mostly women and children) fell victims to the most inhuman barbarity. In consequence of the alarming increase of the Black population at the South, fears have been long entertained that it might one day be the unhappy lot of the whites, in that section, to witness scenes similar to those which but a few years since, nearly depopulated the once flourishing island of St. This volume was copyrighted just one month after the revolt took place. ![]()
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