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Events on Sunday 21 August 1831 1
1831Nat Turner's RebellionEnslaved Virginians rise up against slaveryNat Turner led a group of enslaved and free Black Virginians in an armed uprising in Southampton County, killing dozens of white residents before militia suppressed the revolt. The rebellion triggered brutal reprisals and tighter slave codes across the South.