#NatTurnersRebellion

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✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon

#MondayMotivation

#MoodForever

Giving thanks to our ancestor #NATTURNER

for his service and sacrifice, and for providing the blueprint for #BlackLiberation!!

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#Artwork: "Portrait of Nat Turner with the Head of his Master"

#Artist: #KerryJamesMarshall

I stared at this masterpiece for a good while and smiled from the inside out when I saw it at The Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago!

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📸Images 2&3, and caption reposted from @nmaahc #OnThisDay [August 21] in 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia. This early rebellion and resistance represented a deep yearning enslaved Black Americans had towards freedom from slavery and deliverance from the persistent presence of racism.

Born in enslaved in 1800, Turner believed he was called by God to deliver his people from slavery. He used his talent as a preacher and radical orator to convince others to join his revolt. The group of rebels marched throughout Southampton County killing at least 55 people, including his master’s family, until authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly 2 months before he was caught tried in the Southampton County Court and hanged on November 11, 1831. Turner’s revolt sent shockwaves throughout the South, as many began to fear the possibility of future slave revolts and violent rebellion. In retaliation, many state and local governments throughout the South passed laws restricting enslaved people’s lives in response to Nat Turner’s rebellion.

During the colonial period, anti-slavery practices from rebellions, abolitionist oration, metaphorical literature, and more, provided African Americans with the means to navigate oppression, emboldening them to create cultural heroes and figurative spaces of community and empowerment.

#NMAAHCFutures

📸 2. 3. (detail and full view) Bible belonging to Nat Turner. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter

#Freedom #Rebellion #NatTurnerRebellion #BlackPower #Hero #BlackArtists #Abolition #BlackGirlArtGeeks

#NatTurner #Rebellion #NatTurnersRebellion #BlackLiberation #KerryJamesMarshall #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #NMAAHC #Freedom #ArtIsAWeapon

[bloomingnightskty]

💝💝💝 21 🌍❤🌎 #blackhistory #blackhistory365 #august #august21 #haiti #haitianrevolution #natturner #revolutionary #blackpower #riseup #blackisbeautiful #militant #panafricanism #blackunity #blackexcellence #blackinamerica #onthisday #ancestors #blackpower✊ #endwhitesupremacy #rebellion #blackkings #blackqueens #revolution #respectthemelanin #natturnersrebellion

#respectthemelanin #onthisday #blackhistory365 #blackisbeautiful #blackqueens #panafricanism #blackexcellence #rebellion #ancestors #revolutionary #blackhistory #militant #blackpower #endwhitesupremacy #riseup #august21 #natturnersrebellion #haiti #blackinamerica #blackkings #haitianrevolution #august #blackpower✊ #blackunity #revolution #natturner

[djricothenoisemaker]

#NMN1 #NMNisReal #LadiesOfTheNMN #MenOfTheNMN #FollowTheNoise THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE GOING TO THE @smithsonian #AfricanAmericanArtMuseum #NatTurnersRebellion THE DATE #August21st1831 ENSLAVED PEOPLE ROSE UP IN VIRGINIA!!! (at African American History Museum)

#followthenoise #nmnisreal #africanamericanartmuseum #august21st1831 #nmn1 #natturnersrebellion #menofthenmn #ladiesofthenmn

[tabbiecattt]

August 21 1791 #haitianrevolution August 21 1831 #natturnersrebellion

#haitianrevolution #natturnersrebellion

[im-simply-complexx-blog]

Just a little bit of #Virginia history...#NatTurnersRebellion took place in Southampton, VA on August 21, 1831. Rebel slaves staged the largest and deadliest slave uprising in US history. #KnowYourHistory #FullMoon #Eclipse

#fullmoon #natturnersrebellion #knowyourhistory #eclipse #virginia