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On the night of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton Region, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and getting rid of almost five dozen whites - more than got ever been killed in virtually any slave revolt in American record. Although a hastily set up band of whites soon suppressed the assault, its repercussions got far-reaching results. In The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood, Patrick H. Breen uses the remarkable situations in Southampton to explore the horrible choices experienced by customers of the local dark-colored community as they considered signing up for the rebels, a choice that could likely cost them their lives; helping their experts; or somehow keeping away from taking sides. Combining fast-paced narrative with thorough examination, Breen shows how, as whites regained control, slaveholders created an account of the revolt that preserved their slaves from white retribution, the most dangerous menace facing the slaveholders' individuals property. By probing the experiences slaveholders told that allowed those to get nonslaveholders to protect slave property, The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood uncovers something unexpected about both fragility and electricity of slavery.
