Editing Nat Turner (section)

==Legacy==

* In 2002, scholar [[Molefi Kete Asante]] listed Nat Turner as one of the [[100 Greatest African Americans]].<ref>Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia'', Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1-57392-963-8}}.</ref>
* In 2009, in [[Newark, New Jersey]], the largest city-owned park was named Nat Turner Park. The facility cost $12 million to construct.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Trust for Public Land Celebrates Groundbreaking at Nat Turner Park |url=http://www.pr-inside.com/the-trust-for-public-land-celebrates-r646225.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215231012/http://www.pr-inside.com/the-trust-for-public-land-celebrates-r646225.htm |archive-date=February 15, 2013 |access-date=August 21, 2010 |website=Pr-inside.com}}</ref>
* In 2012, the small Bible that belonged to Turner was donated to the [[National Museum of African American History and Culture]] by the Person family of Southampton County, Virginia.<ref name=":9">{{cite news |last1=Trescott |first1=Jacqueline |date=February 16, 2012 |title=Descendants of Va. family donate Nat Turner's Bible to museum |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/descendants-of-va-family-donate-nat-turners-bible-to-museum/2012/02/16/gIQA7KCAIR_story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422032830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/descendants-of-va-family-donate-nat-turners-bible-to-museum/2012/02/16/gIQA7KCAIR_story.html |archive-date=April 22, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* In 2017, it was announced that Turner was to be honored with others with an [[Emancipation and Freedom Monument]] in [[Richmond, Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moomaw |first=Graham |date=September 20, 2017 |title=Nat Turner, the leader of a violent Virginia slave uprising, will be honored on a new emancipation statue in Richmond |url=https://richmond.com/news/local/government-politics/nat-turner-the-leader-of-a-violent-virginia-slave-uprising-will-be-honored-on-a/article_ff963fe8-d438-5a59-858a-272120f2eb5a.html |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Richmond Times-Dispatch |language=en}}</ref><ref>Haltiwanger, John (September 21, 2017). [https://www.newsweek.com/slave-uprising-leader-nat-turner-be-included-anti-slavery-monument-richmond-669149 "Nat Turner to Be Included on Monument in Richmond"]. ''Newsweek''. Retrieved December 18, 2022.</ref> Created by [[Thomas Jay Warren]], the state-funded bronze sculpture was dedicated in September 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shivaram |first=Deepa |date=2021-09-22 |title=An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039333919/new-emancipation-statue-richmond-virginia-monument |access-date=2022-12-18 |publisher=NPR |language=en}}</ref>
* Nat Turner's Rebellion is celebrated as part of [[Black August (commemoration)|Black August]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaur |first=Harmeet |date=2020-08-03 |title=Activists are commemorating Black August. Here's the history behind the month-long celebration |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/what-is-black-august-explainer-trnd/index.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |publisher=CNN |language=en}}</ref>
* In the post-9/11 era, Nat Turner's legacy has been reinterpreted to distance him from the radicalized image of the "terrorist" in U.S. discourse, with Kyle Baker's graphic novel ''Nat Turner'' (2005–2007) depicting him as a Christ-like martyr rather than a religious extremist<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bruno |first=Tim |date=September 10, 2015 |title=Nat Turner after 9/11: Kyle Baker's Nat Turner |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815001243 |access-date=2025-03-02 |journal=Journal of American Studies|volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=923–951 |doi=10.1017/S0021875815001243 }}</ref>