On this day, 21 August 1831, the Nat Turner slave rebellion threw Southern slave owners into a panic as around 70 enslaved Africans went on a rampage from plantation to plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. More info in this chapter about slave revolts by Howard Zinn: https://libcom.org/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn/9-slavery-without-submission-emancipation-without-freedom https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1192980650887083/?type=3