![]() ![]() There is a direct connection between 18, and we will use the programming to examine the many thoughts and ideas around that history,” Ms. What followed was a path that crashes directly into the 2020 killings of unarmed black men and women, killings that are just the most recent expression of four centuries of inhumane treatment, oppression, racism, and injustice.ġ2 Days of Turner asks, why is it important to understand the insurrection nearly two centuries later? “Because as part of our nation’s reckoning with race, we must reckon with understanding our history. The WAS “ended” with the end of Reconstruction – the 1877 withdrawal of Federal troops that were tasked with protecting the new rights of the formerly enslaved. ![]() The 1831 Nat Turner uprising is the first event in what is often called The War Against Slavery (WAS). 58 that is today known as Blackhead’s Crossing. Many were beheaded, their heads stuck on poles and placed in a location by U.S. ![]() Less concern in the news accounts of the day can be found regarding how generations of enslaved people had been treated for centuries, or that, in the immediate weeks and months after the insurrection, more than 300 Black men, women and children were sold, tried and executed. Turner was immediately denounced as a lunatic with no sense of decency. After hiding on the outskirts of the Great Dismal Swamp, Turner was captured Oct. Almost 60 members of the slaveholding class died in the first 48 hours of Turner’s coordinated action as a steadily growing group of followers moved from farm to farm, killing all occupants, regardless of age or gender. Although Turner’s insurrection was not the first or only uprising of enslaved people, over time he became a profound symbol of how slavery would ultimately end in America – violently. About a month later he returned from freedom and a few months later led a group determined to inflict harm on the slaveholding class. Thirty-one-year-old Southampton native Turner successfully escaped from the farm where he was enslaved. “Whether you admire or despise Nat Turner, this week marks the 189th anniversary of the Nat Turner Insurrection, and a pretty good argument can be made that that event qualifies as the first battle of the Civil War mostly fought from 1861 to 1865, but truly started in 1831,” explains Ms. Rehearsals for Summers in Suffolk written by JuneteenthVA founder Sheri Bailey will be free and open to the public with social distancing and masks required. Whatever your vision of what Nat Turner represents, the viewing audience will determine, with their votes, if you hit the mark. Puppets, paintings, and sculptures are acceptable entries. There will be a Nat Turner look-a-like contest with no restrictions on gender, race or age. ![]() Readings from the Confessions of Nat Turner will include appearances by some of the famous activists, entertainers, and athletes who call Hampton Roads home. Programming will run over the course of 12 days, with updates available throughout that time on the Juneteenth Virginia website and the WJVA Radio website.Ĭontent will include conversations with local, regular folks doing well and those needing some help. Starting on the 189th anniversary of the Nat Turner Insurrection, JuneteenthVA is presenting 12 Days of Turner, a wide range of recorded and live streamed programs that will start the process of reframing our nation’s story to incorporate its full truth - its triumphs and its failings. Hosted by JuneteenthVA in Tidewater-Hampton Roads, Virginia – the location of both the first enslavement and first freeing of African men and women on American soil Reframing History in the 21st Century October 31– November 11 ![]()
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