The 14th annual observance of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion was held in Newark on Monday at Nat Turner Park.
The occasion was sponsored by the The Folks’s Group for Progress (POP) and the Buddies of Nat Turner Park.
“We maintain this observance of Nat Turner’s Insurrection yearly as a result of we imagine this can be very necessary to recollect these folks among the many enslaved who resisted and fought not solely to free themselves however sought to overthrow and destroy the evil system of slavery in the US,” stated Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, Folks’s Group For Progress.
Nat Turner Park was formally opened in July of 2009. It’s the largest metropolis owned park.
Sunday marked the 192st anniversary of the Nat Turner Rebellion, often known as the Southampton Riot which started on August 21,1831 in Southampton County, Virginia.
It is likely one of the most well-known slave rebellions within the historical past of the US. Scores of enslaved and free black folks participated within the rebel.
Through the rebellion as many as 65 whites could have been killed, and probably 200 blacks. Within the aftermath of the rebellion Nat Turner was hanged and 56 different slaves have been executed for his or her participation.
“Nat Turner’s Insurrection and the a whole lot of different slave uprisings in the US impressed and gave momentum to the abolitionist motion, led to the Civil Conflict, and helped convey in regards to the finish of slavery on this nation,” Hamm stated. “We should always remember those that had the braveness to insurgent and battle in opposition to slavery. They gave their lives in order that we might be free.”
