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Nat Turner:
The Hildred W. Cole Southampton Insurrection Collection

Books:

Nat Turner: a slave rebellion in history and memory ; edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg. Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.

Tomorrow Jerusalem : the story of Nat Turner and the Southampton Slave Insurrection ; by bill Bryant. 1 st Books, 2002.

The Confessions of Nat Turner and related documents ; edited with an introduction by Kenneth S. Greenberg. Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: a compilation of source material; by Henry Irving Tragle. University of Massachusetts Press, 1971.

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion; by Stephen B. Oates. Harper & Row, 1990.

The Social Psychological Determinants of Minority Uprising: a comparison of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion (1831) and the Newark Riot (1967); a Dissertation presented by Corrie Hope. UMI Dissertation Information Service, 1975.

Nat Turner: Slave, Preacher, Prophet, and Messiah, 1800-1831 : a study of the call of a Black slave to Prophethood and to the Messiahship of the Second Coming of Christ by James Nathaniel Mitchell. Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1975.

The Nat Turner Story: History of the South’s most important Slave Revolt with new material provided by Black Tradition and White Tradition ; F. Roy Johnson. Johnson Publishing Co., 1970.

Nat Turner by Terry Bisson. Chelsa House, 1988.

Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion: including the full text of Nat Turner’s 1831 “Confession” by Herbert Aptheker.

The Nat Turner Rebellion: the historical event and the modern controversy; edited by John B. Duff and Peter M. Mitchell. Harper & Row, 1971.

Southampton County Historical Society, Bulletin No. 7, October, 1997.

Nat Turner by Ann-Marie Hendrickson. Chelsa House, 1995.

Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion: together with the full text of the so-called “Confessions” of Nat Turner made in prison in 1831 by Herbert Aptheker. Humanities Press, 1966.

The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American memory by Scot French. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Remembering Nat Turner: The Rebellious Slave in American Thought 1831 to Present Scot Andrew French Ph.D dissertation Charlottesville ( Univ. of Virginia), May 2000.

Panic and Reprisal: Reaction in North Carolina to the Nat Turner Insurrection by Charles Edward Morris, thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University at Raleigh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, 1979.

Nat Turner: Inspired Prophet or Crazed Fanatic? By Jessica A. Cook. Final Project made possible by a summer study research grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1992.

Southampton County & Franklin: a pictorial history by Daniel T. Balfour.

Southampton County Virginia by Thomas C. Parramore. Published for the Southampton County Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1978.

Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 by Daniel W. Crofts. University Press of Virginia, 1992.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1884.

Videos:

Nat Turner Insurrection (4 tape set) by the Southampton County Historical Society, 1994.

Nat Turner Insurrection – 1831 (30 min.) by the Southampton County Historical Society, 1997.

Vertical File:

Hardesty’s Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Special Virginia ed.

Historical Collections of Virginia by Henry Howe. Southampton County section, p. 471-473.

Southampton Insurrection Maps

“When Terror Stalked,” by George H. Tucker in the Virginian-Pilot, Sunday, Aug. 22, 1965.

“Southampton May Be Setting for Nat Turner Film,” text by Marion Brinkley & Roger Carroll in the Suffolk News-Herald, 1969.

“The Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Insurrection” by John W. Cromwell in the Journal of Negro History, p. 208-234. (Unable to locate a date on this photocopy).

Nat Turner: Prophet, Visionary, Slave Revolt Leader by Jesse Friedman. The Writings Collection: Entertaining Stories, Informative Reports

“This Quiet Dust” by William Styron from Harper’s Magazine, April 1965.

“Children of Darkness” by Stephen B. Oates. American Heritage, Oct. 1973, v. 24 no. 6.

Before the Mayflower: a history of Black America by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Johnson Publishing Co., 6 th ed., 1987.

“History, Politics and Literature: The Myth of Nat Turner,” by Seymour L. Gross and Kathleen Bender. American Quarterly, v. 23, Oct. 1971.

“Nat Turner’s Enigmatic Legacy” by Tamara Dietrich. Daily Press, Feb. 15, 2004.

“Spreading Terror and Devastation Wherever They Have Been: a Norfolk Woman’s Account of the Southampton Slave Insurrection" edited by Deborah Shea. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 95, No. 1 (January 1987).

“Nathaniel Francis, Representative Antebellum Southerner" by F. N. Boney. Proceedings of The American Philosophical Society, vol. 118, no. 5, Oct. 1974.

“Nat Turner slave revolt looks differently today” by Bill Bryant. Unable to locate which newspaper this article appeared or the date.

“Skull: 172 years later, Nat Turner’s insurrection still controversial here” by Lon Wagner, Virginian-Pilot, May 3, 2003.

“Nat Turner’s skull turns up far from site of his revolt” by Lon Wagner, Virginian-Pilot, May 3, 2003.

“Nat Turner, A Hundred Years Afterwards” by Miles Mark Fisher in The Crisis, vol. 38, 1931.