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Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turner's Rebellion


Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turner's Rebellion
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   7.32

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    devastation, happening, religious, illegal, estimate, fiction, testify, participate, saying, militia, jury, response, entire, intelligent, wherever, confession
     content words:    Nat Turner, Thomas Gray, Nat Turner‘s Rebellion, Civil War, Black Codes


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Response to a Slave Rebellion - Nat Turner's Rebellion
By Sharon Fabian
  

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Nat Turner's Rebellion

 
2     Nat Turner was an intelligent and very religious young man. He also became something of a mystery, someone who claimed to have seen visions. As an adult, he remained a mysterious figure. Many questions remain about Nat Turner to this day.
 
3     We do know that Nat Turner was the leader of a slave rebellion that took place in Virginia in 1831. He led a group of about 60 or 70 slaves. These rebels began at the Travis plantation where Turner was a slave. They killed the entire Travis family. Then, they moved on to other plantations. In the end, a total of about 60 plantation owners and family members had been killed.
 
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Response to the Rebellion


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