Confessions of Nat Turner (1831 New York edition) (Q772)
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1831 edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner, published in New York
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Confessions of Nat Turner (1831 New York edition) |
1831 edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner, published in New York |
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THE | CONFESSIONS | OF | NAT TURNER | THE LEADER OF THE | INSURRECTION IN SOUTHAMPTON, | VIRGINIA, | As fully and voluntarily made to | THOMAS R. GRAY, | In the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged | by him to be such when read before the Court of | Southampton ; with the certificate, under | seal of the Court convened at Jeru- | salem, Nov. 5, 1831, for | his trial. |
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ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC | Account of the whole Insurrection, | WITH LISTS OF THE WHITES WHO WERE MURDERED, | And of the Negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and there Sentenced, &c. | [line] | New York : | PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY C. BROWN, | 211, Water Street. | 1831.
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the above testified to the veracity of Nat Turner's confession given to Thomas Gray and presented at the Court of Southampton
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one, Thomas R. Gray of the said District, deposited in this office of the title of a book, which is in the words as following: "The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Virginia,
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as fully voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the cer-tificate, under seal, of the Court convened at Jerusalem, November 5, 1831, for his trial. Also, an authentic account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites who were murdered,
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and of the negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and there sentenced, &c. the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in conformity with an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to amend the several acts respecting Copy Rights." Edmund J. Lee, Clerk of the District. In testimony that the above is a true copy from the record of the District Court
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for the District of Columbia, I, Edmund I. Lee, the Clerk thereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this 10th day of November, 1831. EDMUND J. LEE, C.D.C.
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Titled "Horrid Massacre in Virginia." The frontispiece is a folded page that includes descriptions of the three scenes depicted.
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