Editing Nat Turner (section)

==Rebellion==
{{Main|Nat Turner's Rebellion}}
[[File:1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion (Library of Congress).jpg|thumb|An illustration of rebel slaves from 1831]]
Over approximately a decade, Turner built up support for his cause, culminating in an anti-slavery uprising that served as a source of inspiration for later [[abolitionist]] organizers and rebels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nat-Turner|title=Nat Turner &#124; Biography, Rebellion, & Facts &#124; Britannica|website=Britannica|date=28 September 2024 }}</ref> The four-day [[Nat Turner's slave rebellion|rebellion]] started on August 21, 1831.<ref name="birth">{{cite book |author=Turner |first=Nat |year=1831 |editor-last=Grey |editor-first=T. R. |title=The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. |publisher=T. R. Gray |url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/menu.html |access-date=July 14, 2018 |via=Documenting the South |at="Confession" paragraph 2 |location=Baltimore |quote=I was thirty-one years of age the 2d of October last [Nat reported in Nov 1831]}}</ref>

Nat Turner's Rebellion resulted in the death of 55 white men, women, and children.<ref name=":3" /> This is considered the "most deadly slave revolt" in United States history.<ref name=":3" /> The state militia and local troops quickly suppressed the uprising; between 36 and 120 Black men, women, and children, many of whom were not involved in the revolt, were killed by soldiers and local mobs in retaliation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brinkley |first=Alan |title=American History: A Survey |title-link=American History: A Survey |year=2008 |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill Education]] |isbn=978-0073385495 |edition=13th |location=New York City}}</ref><ref name="Breen2015p98,231">{{cite book |last=Breen |first=Patrick H. |title=The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt |year=2015 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0199828005 |pages=98, 231}}</ref><ref name="attrocitynote">Breen 2015, Chapter 9 and Allmendinger 2014, Appendix F are recent studies that review various estimates for the number of slaves and free blacks killed without trial, giving a range of from 23 killed to over 200 killed. Breen notes on page 231 that "high estimates have been widely accepted in both academic and popular sources".</ref><ref name=":3" />

Turner eluded capture but remained in Southampton County, in hiding.<ref name="akinyela" /> On October 30, a farmer named Benjamin Phipps discovered Turner hiding in a depression in the earth, created by a large, fallen tree covered with fence rails.<ref name=":6">Drewry, William Sydney (1900). ''[https://archive.org/details/southamptonin00drew/mode/2up?q=cave The Southampton Insurrection]''. Washington, D.C.: The Neale Company. pp.&nbsp;13, 151–53. via Internet Archive</ref> This was referred to locally as Nat Turner's cave, although it was not a natural cave.<ref name=":6" /> Around 1 p.m. on October 31, Turner arrived at the prison in the county seat of Jerusalem, Virginia (now [[Courtland, Virginia|Courtland]]).<ref name=":13"/>