Mar 01, 2017 2017-03-01
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Digital Archive of Historical Documents
The Nat Turner Project’s digital archive lets students read original documents related to the only large-scale slave revolt ever to occur in the United States. Students can explore newspaper articles, diary entries, letters, maps, trial transcripts, census records, pamphlets, petitions, and other types of sources created at the time the revolt occurred. The archive also contains later accounts of the revolt, including interviews with former slaves and memoirs of former slaveholders. The Memory section includes visual and fictional representations of Nat Turner and the revolt, which were created long after the revolt was suppressed and the people involved were gone. The project is sponsored by Widener University’s Department of History.
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