The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-07
Nat Turner, Negro Champion and Martyr


the county This plan emineny wise and the
revolt would have different history had other counsel
vailed Three miles the Jerusalem the had
to pass plantation owned by named Parker Some OF the men
delay might unous his plans Finally however, he yielded
and proved fatal During the STOP party of thirty armed white
slave suddenly dispersed the small guard the gates
and attacked the main body the The slaves responded
to this attack with voey of shots and reckless charge their
armed latter and fled Pursued they
saved from humiliation only by falling in with another band of
perfect order Later that night attacked by superior
forces and most of his men scattered With only few men left Turner
agreed that best for these scatter and try to enlist of
the slaves for fresh offensive
outset plans succeeded; everything gone
he pedd the slaves had responded eagerly his CALL
class had proved itself ow and incapable the face of the revolt
persuaded pause plantation
huge
lions and would have been able numbers of His
His exploits had already caused utter generalization only vr
ga throughout slavehong Finally pressed
could have taken refuge the Dismal Swamp and there sustained his
force indefinitely against the while he rallied additional forces
to the cause of liberation
of in
of that day. Reports flew thick and FAST the militia said
feated thousands of slaves had Joined the revolt Blind panic took
of the guilty white slave Only with the arrival of
and then not completely until the of Nat Turner
Nor was the range Of these insueconary alarms confined to
Delaware there arbitrary and executions of slaves
pected mtancy In Carolina many
their families to the swamps In Alabama
at the report Of Joint conspiracy two wronged races the Indians
in widespread arrests and murders of slaves In Maryland Georgia.
Alexander an English tourist arriving at New the begin
ming September found the whole city tumut Reports flew thick
mind of the class helped by the which
constantly arriving of instructions in Brazil and the West Indies
of white all the
did the with of security Hd
the blow been struck before by only menu Was not Nat
Turner still at large?"
Meanwhile Generalization of the class,
daring the Virginia instruction made the object of
him
hundred Huge rewards offered for his
of his appeared however, until October
18th that his whereabouts discovered able he
cang defending himself the need might be- that it not
until October 30th that he finally captured.
With captured the launched bloody
against the Negro slaves. Negroes murdered
blood irrespective of whether they had taken the revolt
actuated by the usual motive Of the ruling class
working 1t
ruthless purposefu that which the French ruling
the French workers following the collapse of the
heroic Paris Commune.
surrender preferrng die
those who fell the
DEATH MANNED and subjected nameess atrocities Any
who showed the slightest spirit noted for intelligence
death by the who the thought
might be other Nat their slaves.
his with the equanmy Cool
denial of his leadership of the revolt
revolutionary he utilized the of the master class
tribunal which thunder his denunaion against the
pressors
1884, executed later in November H. Even
his death with perfect
betrayed emotion and hurried the execuoner the
of his duty Not by the slightest of limb
did satisfaction to the huge crowd Of sac slave
holders who gathered to witness the Execution"
advancement affirmed loyalty under