From The Atlantic archives: a detailed account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion
The white colonel of the first official black regiment recounts his experience.
An account of America’s bloodiest slave revolt and its repercussions.
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
A white Civil War officer recounts his experience as Colonel of the first black regiment
154 years ago, The Atlantic published an account of a Virginia slave revolt that would become one of the bloodiest in American history.
“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.”