Editing Nat Turner (section)

==Marriage and children==
Turner married an enslaved woman named Cherry, also spelled Chary (however, historians still dispute exactly who Nat Turner's wife was).<ref name=":10">Breen, Patrick (2015). ''The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0199828005}}</ref><ref name=":11">Allmendinger, David (2014). ''Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County''. Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 64. {{ISBN|978-1421422558}}</ref> It is thought that Turner and Cherry met and were married at Samuel Turner's plantation in the early 1820s.<ref name=":10" /> The couple had children; historians vary in believing that there were one, two, or three children (a daughter and possibly one or two sons, including one named Riddick).<ref name=":11" /><ref>Greenberg, Kenneth (2004). ''Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0195177565}}</ref>

The family was separated after Samuel Turner died in 1823, when Turner was sold to Thomas Moore and his family were sold to Giles Reese.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bisson |first1=Terry |title=Nat Turner |last2=Huggins |first2=Nathan Irvin |year=1988 |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |isbn=1-55546-613-3 |publication-place=New York |page=21 |oclc=17383625 |author-link=Terry Bisson}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Peter H. |title=Nat Turner {{!}} Encyclopedia of Race and Racism |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/social-reformers/nat-turner |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Cengage Encyclopedia}}</ref> By 1831, his son was enslaved by Piety Reese and lived on a farm that was near the Travis farm where Turner was enslaved.<ref name=":3" /> However, in February 1831, Reese's son John used Turner's son as collateral for a family debt.<ref name=":3" /> One historian notes that Turner approached his conspirators for the rebellion days after his son was used as collateral.<ref name=":3" />

After the rebellion, the authorities{{who|date=January 2025}} beat and tortured Cherry Turner in hopes of finding her husband.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bisson |first1=Terry |last2=Davenport |first2=John |year=2005 |title=Nat Turner: Slave Revolt Leader |publisher=Chelsea House Publications |page=22 |isbn=0791083411}}</ref> On September 26, 1831, the ''Richmond Constitutional Whig'' published a story about the raiding of Reese plantation stating that, "some papers [were] given up by his wife, under the lash."<ref name=":13">Kossuth, Lajos (1852). ''[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072313412?urlappend=%3Bseq=80%3Bownerid=27021597768335040-86 Letter to Louis Kossuth: Concerning Freedom and Slavery in the United States]''. R.F. Walcutt. p. 76. via Hathi Trust.</ref>