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Nat Turner

Nat Turner was a slave in the United States who led a slave uprising against white slave owners. Born October 2, 1800 and hanged on November 11, 1831 in Jerusalem, Virginia[?]. He led probably the bloodiest of the slave rebellions in the United States.

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