Nat Turner's Bible Gave the Enslaved Rebel the Resolve to Rise Up

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Originally posted on September 13, 2016 on Smithsonian.com.

200 years after his death, slave rebel Nat Turner has grown to be a powerful symbol in the anti-slavery and anti-racism resistance. His Bible, which is believed to have been with him when he was hung, is currently on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History.