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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

     

    Governor’s Proclamation of a Reward

    for the Capture of Nat Turner

    September 17, 1831

     

    By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

     

    A Proclamation

     

    Whereas the slave Nat, otherwise called Nat Turner, the contriver and leader of the late Insurrection in Southampton, is still going at large: Therefore I, John Floyd, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have thought proper, and hereby offer a reward of five hundred dollars to any person or persons who will apprehend and convey to the Jail at Southampton County, the said slave Nat: and I do moreover require all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the Commonwealth to use their best endeavours to cause the said fugitive to be apprehended, that he may be dealt with as the law directs.

     

                                          Given under my hand as Governor, and

                                          under the lesser seal of the Commonwealth

                                          at Richmond, this 17th day of September

                                          1831.

                                                      John Floyd

     

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    Nat is between 30 & 35 years old, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high,

    weighs between 150 and 160 lbs, rather bright complexion, but

    not a mulatto--broad shouldered--large flat nose--large eyes--broad

    flat feet--rather knock-kneed--walks brisk and active--hair on the

    top of the head very thin-no beard except on the upper lip, and

    the tip of the chin--a scar on one of his temples--also one on the

    back of his neck--a large knob on one of the bones of his right

    arm near the wrist produced by a blow.

     

     

    From Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971), pp. 422-424.