Suggested Reading

 

The following sources provide more information about Nat Turner and the Southampton Revolt of 1831:

 

David F. Allmendinger, Jr., Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

 

Patrick H. Breen, The Land Shall Be Deluged with Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

 

Alfred L. Brophy, "The Nat Turner Trials" North Carolina Law Review 91 (2013): 1817-1880.

 

Mary Kemp Davis, Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).

 

Scot French, The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).

 

Kenneth S. Greenberg, editor, The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996).

 

Kenneth S. Greenberg, editor, Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

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Vanessa M. Holden, Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2021).

 

Donald G. Mathews, Religion in the Old South (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977).

 

Stephen Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion (New York: Harper & Row, 1975).

 

Thomas C. Parramore, Southampton County, Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978).

 

Randolph Ferguson Scully, Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008).

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Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020).

 

Eva Sheppard Wolff, Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009).