After this event, a college president named Thomas R. Dew wrote an influential review of a legislative debate over how to react. The leader of this event claimed that the "Serpent was loosened" and he had to fight against it.
After this event, a college president named Thomas R. Dew wrote an influential review of a legislative debate over how to react. The leader of this event claimed that the "Serpent was loosened" and he had to fight against it. Lerone Bennett wrote that this event was the "word made flesh" of David Walker's Appeal, a pamphlet published two years prior. Benjamin Phipps found this event's instigator, who began it after a bluish-green tinge over the sun closely followed a solar eclipse, and tried to take a small town called Jerusalem. Thomas Gray wrote up Confessions of its fervently religious leader, who was captured in the Great Dismal Swamp and hanged. For 10 points, name this 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which led many states to tighten restrictions on slaves.