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    PAMPHLETS

     

    Authentic & Impartial Narrative

     

    Title Page

    "Horrid Massacre"

    "Insurrection in North Carolina"

     

    Confessions of Nat Turner

     

    Title Page

    "To the Public"

    "Confession"

    "Commonwealth v. Nat Turner"

     

    Review of the Confessions

    Samuel Warner, Authentic and Impartial

    Narrative of the Tragical Scene, 1831

    Samuel Warner received a copyright in New York City to publish his pamphlet on the revolt on October 21, 1831, nine days prior to Turner’s capture. Warner’s pamphlet identified no specific sources, but presumably drew largely from newspaper accounts. His Authentic and Impartial Narrative seems to have been the first separate publication detailing the events of the revolt.

    AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL

     

     

    NARRATIVE

     

     

    OF THE

     

     

    TRAGICAL SCENE

     

     

    WHICH WAS WITNESSED IN SOUTHAMMP-

    TON COUNTRY (VIRGINIA) ON MONDAY

    THE 22D OF AUGUST LAST,

     

    WHEN

     

    FIFTY-FIVE of its Inhabitants (mostly women and

    children) were inhumanely

     

     

    MASSACRED BY THE BLACKS!

     

     

    Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of

    the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confes-

    sions of several of the Blacks while under

    Sentence of Death

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    PRINTED FOR WARNER & WEST.

    1831.

     

     

     

    Southern District of New-York, to wit:

    BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty first day of October, A.D. 1831, Samuel Warner, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the title of which is in the words following, to wit—“Authentic and impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene which was witnessed in Southampton county (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last, when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanely massacred by the Blacks!—communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene and confirmed by the confessions of several of the blacks while under sentence of death.” the right whereof he claims as Author, in conformity with an Act of Congress, entitled “An Act to amend the several Acts respecting copy-rights.”

         Witness, Fred. J. Betts.

    Clerk of the Southern District of New York.