![]() ![]() ![]() The next day he was delivered to the county sheriff and lodged in the county jail in Jerusalem (now Courtland), Virginia. Nat Turner alone escaped-until October 30, when he was caught in the immediate vicinity, having used several hiding places over the previous 9½ weeks. ![]() By noon of Tuesday, August 23, the insurgents had been killed, captured, or dispersed by local militia. Over the next 36 hours, they were joined by as many as 60 other slaves and free blacks, and they killed at least 10 men, 14 women, and 31 infants and children. they began to enter local houses and kill the white inhabitants. Nat Turner (1800–1831) was known to his local “fellow servants” in Southampton County as “The Prophet.” On the evening of Sunday, August 21, 1831, he met six associates in the woods at Cabin Pond, and about 2:00 a.m. ![]()
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