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In a few days, Detroit emcee/producer, and OKP favorite Black Milk will be setting out on his national Claps and Slaps Tour with his live band, Nat Turner. The 25-date tour will feature special guests J.Pinder and A.Dd+. It all begins on February 25th...
For a century, the descendants of one of Virginia's oldest families have kept a Bible that connected them to Nat Turner, the slave who led the bloodiest slave revolt in American history. Maurice Person, a descendant of people who were killed during the...
Clyde Strickland, right, stands next to stained glass windows bearing the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr. , left, and slave-revolt leader Nat Turner, right, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle during Seattle Community... View Photo »
Like Nat Turner's cabin pond, where you go there and there's no sign, no signifier that you're in this historical place. The history was erased right after it happened, deliberately.
That part of the book is missing. The museum has also collected two bricks from the chimney where the young Francis was hidden. “Our generation wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the house slaves,” Porter said. The significance of the Bible has always...
Turner went through an acquisition most entrepreneurs only dream about. His advertising technology company Invite Media was acquired by Google Inc. in 2010 for US$81-million, just three years after he launched it. While some entrepreneurs would retire...
But we also often hear the name Denmark Vesey in that same discussion. Turner’s revolt, of course, ranks among the most effective in the history of this nation—and there were, according to scholars, some two hundred or so attempts. But many may not...
In fact, Foster claims to have set what many see as the tainted record straight in her historical novel series, "The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses" and the newly released "The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony"...
The Amateau book is one of Lotz’s own acquisitions, an historical novel about a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800, decades before Nat Turner. Led by blacksmith Gabriel Prosser, the thousand-strong uprising might have succeeded had it not been for...
Nat Turner (Nathaniel Turner, October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led the slave rebellion that resulted in the most fatalities in the antebellum southern United States. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia. His methodical slaughter of white civilians during the uprising makes his legacy controversial. Full Article
