| Nat Turner was born on October 2. 1800 in
Southampton, Virginia. As a child he was thought to be very intelligent
also" intended for great purpose" Nat grew up to be a very religious
slave preacher .When he was twenty-one years of age Nat Turner
ran away from his owner Samuel Turner . But not long after Nat left
he had a vision from a spirit telling him "return to the service of
my earthly father" Nat then returned to his life as a slave. A year
later Samuel died. Samuels wife Putnam Moore soon married a man named
Travis Moore . Travis Moore was soon Nat Turners new owner which Nat
seemed to like fairly well. About three years later Nat had a second vision.
He had saw lights in the sky and prayed to find out what they had
meant" Then while laboring in the fields, I discovered drops of blood
in the corn, as though it were dew drops from heaven and I communicated it
to many, both white and black, in the nationhood; And then I found on the
leaves in the woods hieroglyphic character and numbers, with the forms of
men in different attitudes, portrayed in blood, and representing the
figures I had seen in the heavens." After this vision had occurred he
knew God had chosen him to lead the African Americans to freedom. May
12,1828 Turner had a third vision " I heard a loud noise in the heavens,
and the spirit instantly appeared to me and said the serpent was loosened
and Christ laid down the he had borne for the sins of men, and that I
should take it on and fight against the serpent for the time was approaching
fast, when the fist shall be last and the last be first... and the signs
in heaven that it would be known by me When I should commence the great
work, and until the first sigh appeared, I should conceal it from the knowledge
at me and or the appearance of the sigh...Should arise and prepare myself
and slat the enemies with there own weapons." Not long after this
vision on August 18 an apocalypse accrued and Turner had took this as the
sign he had been waiting for.
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