William Styron wrote a controversial Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about this conflict. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this conflict whose leader’s “confessions” were compiled by local lawyer Thomas Gray. This rebellion’s literate leader carried a Bible around before being tried at the Southampton County Courthouse.
ANSWER: Nat Turner’s rebellion [accept Nat Turner’s revolt, insurrection, or uprising]
[10e] In the aftermath of Nat Turner’s rebellion, Virginia passed a law pushing free Black people to settle in this country. The American Colonization Society encouraged settlement in this West African country.
ANSWER: Liberia [or the Republic of Liberia]
[10h] News of Nat Turner’s rebellion led to the abandonment of plans to create a college for free Black students in this northern city. Another institution in this city is named for a slave-trader who was president of Fort St. George in India’s Madras Presidency.
ANSWER: New Haven (Elihu Yale served as Governor of Madras and traded slaves there.)
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