I went to school at The University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School), graduating in 2008 cum laude with a B.S. I was born in Houston, currently live in New York City, and have lived in a bunch of other places, including Louisiana, The Netherlands, Scotland, and Philadelphia, PA. Register by phone, e-mail or postal mail:Įmail us at: mail: America’s History LLC, P. This rate will be guaranteed until May 5, so please make your reservations soon. Hotel: We have arranged with the headquarters hotel for a group rate of $99.00 per night plus tax (double or single occupancy.) Please call the Hampton Inn & Suites Chesapeake-Square Mall, 4449 Peek Trail, Chesapeake, Virginia, 23321 at 75 and ask for the America’s History group rate. Please see our policy page for information about cancellations. Tour participants are responsible for transportation to the headquarters hotel, and securing a room reservation, if necessary. Our hotel will provide a complimentary breakfast buffet each day. What’s included: motor coach transportation, two lunches, beverage and snack breaks, a map and materials package, all admissions and gratuities, and the services of an experienced tour leader. In addition, he is a consultant to Southampton County for the creation of a Nat Turner Museum. He is a consultant to the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia and serves of the boards of the Virginia Civil War Trails, Fort Monroe Area Authority and the Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission Advisory Board. He is the author of fifteen books including CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender, The Monitor Boys and A History of Ironclads: the Power of Iron Over Wood. Quarstein, an award-winning author and preservationist, is an experienced tour leader and a much sought after speaker on all periods of American history. It is well worth seeing the historic sites interpreted with factual descriptions of this landmark incident, one of many events that helped to break a nation apart thirty years later. More recently it was popularized by William Styron’s 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Confessions of Nat Turner. Its ramifications were felt for decades after Turner’s death. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was a watershed event during America’s antebellum period. Other sites too numerous to describe will the Giles Reese House, Salathiel Francis House, Piety Reese House, Captain Newitt Harris House, Southampton County Courthouse and Jail, Blackhead Signpost Road, Cypress Bridge, Thomaston, Parker’s Field and Mahone’s Tavern. On this tour we will visit many sites associated with Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt, including the leader’s birthplace, the location where he planned the rebellion, the Joseph Travis (Turner’s last master) House, the Rebecca Vaughan House, the last home where owners were murdered, the site of the Hanging Tree, and Turner’s gravesite. He has a special interest in Nat Turner’s Rebellion since becoming a consultant to Southampton County’s proposed museum dedicated to the legacy of Nat Turner. Our tour leader, John Quarstein is well versed in 19th century Tidewater history. In the aftermath of Turner’s revolt, Southern states enacted laws prohibiting the education of slaves and free blacks, curtailed the assembly of free blacks and required white clergymen to be present at African worship services. Turner’s body was flayed, quartered and beheaded. On November 11, 1831, after a six day trial on charges of “conspiring to rebel and making insurrection,” Turner was convicted, sentenced to death and hanged in Jerusalem (present-day Courtland), Virginia. Another 200 blacks were killed by frenzied mobs and white militias. The revolt’s leader, Nat Turner survived a manhunt of several months, but 65 slaves suspected of being part of the Turner’s rebellion were executed. Upwards of 60 white men, women and children were murdered in a few days. In 1831 the bloodiest slave rebellion in the American South occurred in the commonwealth of Virginia’s Southampton County.
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