ENGL 1220W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Performativity, Pottawatomie Massacre, John Wilkes Booth
4 Oct 2018
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South hampton county, va (lives and dies there) Raised by gma (very religious, very against slavery) Bible used to be used to condone slavery. Escapes at 22, has a vision that god wants him to go back, and does. Needs to be a fight between god and the anti-god kingdom (slavery) 1831: set that he"s gonna do this rebellion. Solar eclipse: interpreted as message from god to rebel. Nat turner falls ill so he has to put it off. Saint helen erupts: sign from god to start. Joseph travis: him, family, 9 yr old son (kill); return to kill baby. Met by militia (taken down, over 200 blacks are killed in a vengeance killing) State reimbursed slave owners for their slaves that were killed. Everyone was on the hunt for nat turner. A farmer eventually finds him in some bushes. Rumor that he was skinned (his skin used for bags, his bones used --> as an example)
