![]() ![]() In 1963, black Americans were at the crossroads of a new revolution - one that advocated civil rights, equal rights and uncompromised rights. As Randolph Scully stated in Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840, the incident “shattered the comforting white illusions of reciprocity, respect, and affection between slave and master.” And the aftermath of the revolt saw an increase in community groups of whites in the South who enacted their own murderous revenge on enslaved blacks prior to the Civil War. ![]() Turner was caught, jailed, and sentenced to death, which included being hung and skinned. In 48 hours, Turner’s cohort killed or injured nearly 60 whites. In August 1831, 10 years after he started receiving his visions, Turner commenced with his planned revolt and, with other enslaved men - numbering 40 at highest count - killed Turner’s master and his family, and any other whites in their path. His visions would continue as he lived in bondage but, this time, he felt that they now directed him to lead a slave revolt, to enact revenge on white citizens for slavery. Nearly a month later, he returned to the plantation owned by his slaveholder after receiving a prophetic vision to do so. In 1821, Nat Turner, who was born into slavery in Southampton County, Virginia, escaped from his enslavement when he was 21 years old. Malcolm X, excerpt from “Message to the Grass Roots” speech delivered to the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, November 10, 1963. You don’t do any singing, you’re too busy swinging.” singing ‘we shall overcome?’ You don’t do that in a revolution. Who ever heard of a revolution where they lock arms. ![]() Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. ![]()
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