I was curious about the "cave" Turner hid in ( not a topographical feature
I associate with that tidewater county ) but in looking for around I found
a 2013 proposal to create a heritage "Southampton Insurrection Trail."
Details at
http://southamptoncounty.org/MediaArchive/PDF/BOS-Agenda-February-2013/No.%206%20-%20Project%20Update%20-%20Nat%20Turner_1831%20Southampton%20Insurrection%20Trail.pdf

Jon Kukla
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, James D Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Beverly Tucker, professor of Law, 1834-1951, told students at the College
> that, as slave holders, they had been "chosen as the instrument, in the
> hand of God, for accomplishing the great purpose of his benevolence," i.e.
> Christianizing and civilizing the African.
>
> On Oct 12, 2016 1:09 PM, "Terry L. Meyers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >         It might be worth adding that an important postscript to Nat
> > Turner’s rebellion was some discussion in the state legislature of
> slavery
> > and whether it could be done away with; that led W&M president Thomas
> > Roderick Dew, an eminent economist, to write his chilling Review of the
> > Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832.
> >
> >         https://archive.org/details/reviewofdebateon00dewt <
> > https://archive.org/details/reviewofdebateon00dewt>
> >
> >         Dew’s tone is precisely that of the speaker in Jonathan Swift’s
> “A
> > Modest Proposal,” but, of course, with no irony behind it. He’s simply
> > applying the immutable laws that govern property and economics.  Though
> he
> > and his faculty are W&M’s special shame, Mr. Jefferson’s university tried
> > to entice him to Charlottesville in 1845.
> >
> >         W&M dug his bones up in Paris in 1939 and reinterred him in the
> > Wren crypt after a fulsome ceremony, a further emblem, as if one was
> > needed, that blacks were not welcome here.
> >
> > >
> > > Out of the Box has posted a new item, '"Nat's War": The Southampton
> > Slave Rebellion of 1831’
> > >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus, College of
> > William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia
> >  23187
> >
> > http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/
> > page/tlmeye/>
> >
> > http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <
> > http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html>
> > ————————————————————————————————————————————————————
> >
> >       Have we got a college?  Have we got a football team?.... Well, we
> > can't afford both.   Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
> >              --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."
> >
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