Resources

Travel in the United States

Women's Roles and Lives in the 1830s

Men's Roles and Lives in the 1830s

Money

Depicting Life in the 1830s in the United States

Events from the 1830s

Increasing Sectional Tensions

Nat Turner's Insurrection

  • Newspaper accounts of the Insurrection, possibly drawn from Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1832 (1971)
  • Trial Records, from Tragle
  • The Confession of Nat Turner (1831)
  • Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene. Warner, Samuel (New York, 1831)
  • Library of Virginia documents on the Turner Insurrection
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Brent, Linda [Harriet Jacobs] (1861)
  • Atlantic Monthly 8 (1861), "Nat Turner's Insurrection". Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. (Boston, 1857-1932).
  • Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832. Dew, Thomas R. (Richmond, 1832) & Proceeding of Virginia Legislature
  • Newspaper acounts & editorials on the debate (should follow, where possible, the same papers as used for insurrection accounts)
  • Memoir of Catherine Brown Anderson, Rufus