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Hello and welcome to Ben Franklin's World Revisited, a series of classic episodes that bring

fresh perspective to our latest episodes and add deeper connections to our understanding

of really American history. I'm your host, Liz Covert. In our last episode, episode 399,

we discussed Denmark V.C.'s revolt, and the way the biblical texts in scripture

enabled V.C. to organize what would have been the largest slave revolt in United States history

if the revolt had not been thwarted before V.C. could put it into action. Now, early American

history is filled with revolts against enslavers that were thwarted and never made it past the

planning stage. But one uprising

that did move beyond the planning stage and was put into action was the South Hampton Rebellion,

or Nat Turner's Revolt, in August 1831. In episode 133, which released in May 2017,

we met with Patrick Breen, an associate professor of history at Providence

College. Patrick joined us to investigate Nat Turner's revolt with details from his book,

The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood, a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt. Given that we

just explored Denmark Visi's failed uprising, I thought it might be good for us to have a point

of comparison, because like Visi, Turner was a religious man who also justified his actions

using God and Scripture. So with that, let's revisit episode 133 with Patrick Breen and rediscover

the details of the Southampton or Net Turner's Rebellion.

Joining us as an associate professor of history at Providence College. He's a scholar of race and

slavery in the early United States and the foremost expert on Nat Turner's Rebellion. And today,

he joins us to discuss that rebellion with details from his book, The Land Shall Be Deluged in

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