Turner syndrome

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mysterious man, who lived during an extraordinary period in American history. Oates begins the book with a thorough biography of Turner. He makes a real effort to show what lead a man to commit the actions he did. Nat was born on October 17, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia. His mother Nancy was brought to America in 1795. The man who purchased her was Benjamin Turner, a wealthy tidewater planter. Nancy married a slave whose name

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knew how to read yet nobody had taught him. Even his master Benjamin Turner came to realization that Nat was special even saying to his friends that “he would never be of service to anyone as a slave”. Now years went by and Nat life started to change dramatically, for one his father had escaped to the north not to be heard of again a year went by when Nat’s master had past away and left the plantation to his eldest son Samuel turner. Samuel made the slaves work very hard and was a very religious individual

Nat Turner was a slave born in 1800 on a small plantation in South Hampton Virginia owned by Benjamin Turner. His Mother was a slave brought over from Africa in the late 1700's. his mother had taught him always to hate slavery and everything that it stood for. He was taught to read by the plantation owner's son which gave him an advantage over other slaves. Nat was a leader among his fellow slaves, because he could read he was more educated and had more of a chance than the other slaves, they respected

Nat Turner was born in October 2, 1800, on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. His father was also a slave of Benjamin Turner’s and was believed to have successfully escaped and lived his life in the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia and North Carolina. His mother was a slave named Nancy who used to live in Africa but was taken in 1763. Nat Turner was highly intelligent and imaginative even from early childhood, and his mother thought that he was destined for great

Nat Turner      Early in the morning of August 22,1831, a band of black slaves, led by a lay preacher named Nat Turner, entered the Travis house in Southampton County, Virginia and killed five members of the Travis family. This was the beginning of a slave uprising that was to become known as Nat Turner’s rebellion. Over a thirty-six hour period, this band of slaves grew sixty or seventy in number and slew fifty-eight white persons in and around Jerusalem, Virginia (seventy

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