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Reasons For Nat Turner's Rebellion
What belief inspired Nat Turner to lead a group of slaves to kill slaveholders? There were many reasons why Nat Turner wanted to stop slavery one being that he believed that God had told him to stop slavery for good. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was one of the most violent slave revolt in 1831, Nat led a group of slaves to kill all of the slaveholders. What Nat did first was attack the family that had Nat as a slave. Not to long after that they went to kill other slaveholders in the community. Nat and his group killed 60 white people in their community. Not all slaves believed that killing the slaveholders was right so some slaves wanted to stop Nat Turner’s group, but more that 100 innocent slaves who had nothing to do with Nat’s group were killed
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