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THE NAT TURNER PROJECT

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    SUPPRESSION

     

    Militia

    Gov. Floyd’s Diary, Aug. 1831

    Governor’s Council, Aug. 23

    Governor’s Letters, Aug. 24

    Militia Notes, Aug. 24/25

    Newspaper Articles

     

    Capture & Trial of Rebels

    Gov. Floyd’s Diary, Sept. 1831

    Reward for Nat Turner, Sept. 17

    Receipt of Nat Turner, Oct. 31

    Execution of Nat Turner, Nov. 11

    Newspaper Articles

     

    Receipt Given to the Captor of Nat Turner

     

    Received Oct. 31 / 1831 from Benjamin Phipps,

    Nat Turner, the leader in the late insur-

    rection in Southampton County, and the

    slave belonging to Putnam Moore an

    infant living with Joseph Travis his

    father in law, both of whom were

    murdered, and the slave named in

    the Governor’s proclamation.—

     

                                        Edwd. Butts deputy of

                                        Clements Rochelle sh[eri]ff

                                        of Southampton County

     

    Novr. 15. 1831

                      Shall the above be paid?

                                                 J. Floyd

     

    To the Council of State

     

     

    From Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), p. 425.