133 The Nat Turner Revolt

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Liz Covart

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🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The institution of African slavery in North America began in late August 1619 and persisted until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in December 1865.

Over those 246 years, many slaves plotted and conspired to start rebellions, but most of the plotted rebellions never took place. Slaveholders and whites discovered them before they could begin. Therefore, North America witnessed only a handful of slave revolts between 1614 and 1865. Nat Turner’s Rebellion in August 1831 stands as the most deadly.

Patrick Breen, an Associate Professor of History at Providence College and author of The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt joins us to investigate the ins and outs of this bloodiest of North American slave revolts.

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0:50.0	Hello and welcome to episode 133 of Ben Franklin's world.
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1:03.0	As an institution, African slavery existed for 246 years in North America.
1:09.0	From August 1619 when the first slaves arrived in Jamestown until December 6, 1865, when the United States ratified the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery.
1:19.0	Now, in all that time, there were only ever a few instances of reported slave revolts.
1:24.8	Although many slaves plotted and conspired to start revolts, most never took place.
1:29.9	Because before they could begin, slaveholders and other whites found out about them.
1:34.5	This makes the story of Nat Turner's rebellion interesting, because this was a slave revolt that took
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