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John Rubens Smith / Library of Congress The Story of Denmark Vesey
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On This Day in 1831, a Bloody Uprising in the Virginia Countryside
From The Atlantic archives: a detailed account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion
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Leaves From an Officer’s Journal
The white colonel of the first official black regiment recounts his experience.
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Library of Congress Nat Turner’s Insurrection
An account of America’s bloodiest slave revolt and its repercussions.
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Leaves From an Officer's Journal
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
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Leaves From an Officer's Journal
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
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Library of Congress Leaves From an Officer's Journal
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
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Library of Congress Nat Turner's Insurrection
154 years ago, The Atlantic published an account of a Virginia slave revolt that would become one of the bloodiest in American history.
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Literature (1857-1907)
“The time will come when all men will wonder, not that Americans attached so much importance to their national development at this period, but that they appreciated it so little.”
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AP Emily Dickinson's Letters
“‘Mr. Higginson, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive?’”
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Some War Scenes Revisited
“I could not find even the wall which one of our men clambered over, loading and firing with a goose captured between his legs. Only the blue sky and the soft air, the lovely atmosphere of Florida, remained … It seemed as if I were the only man left on earth to recall it.”
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Sappho
“It is something to be able to record that, twenty-five centuries ago, in that remote nook among the Grecian Isles, a woman’s genius could play such a part in moulding the great literature that has moulded the world.”
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Negro Spirituals
“These quaint religious songs were to the men more than a source of relaxation; they were a stimulus to courage and a tie to heaven.”
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Edwin Forbes / Library of Congress Out on Picket
“It was always fascinating to be on those forbidden waters by night, stealing out with muffled oars through the creeks and reeds, our eyes always strained for other voyagers, our ears listening breathlessly to all the marsh sounds.”
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Our Future Militia System
“The solution of the problem suggests itself, in part at least, almost as soon as the problem itself is stated. Train the schoolboys.”
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Wikimedia Letter to a Young Contributor
