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Nat Turner is born a slave.
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Congress prohibits the African Slave Trade.
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Nat Turner's owner, Benjamin Turner dies leaving the plantation to Samuel Turner.
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A slave insurrection begins and causes the death of 75 slaves.
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Nat Turner escapes from his farm for two months but comes back claiming a spirit told him to come back and seek freedom for not only himself but the whole farm.
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The U.S. declares war over Britain due to interference with shipping and seamen.
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Francis Scott Key writes "The Star Spangled Banner"
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Richard Allen forms the African American Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Andrew Jackson marches into Florida to stop by Indians, fugitive slaves, and white outlaws on American territory.
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Nat's father escapes his plantation and makes it safely to freedom.
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America goes through it's first major depression causing imprisonment of people who do not pay their debts.
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James Tallmadge grants statehood to Missouri and proposes that all slaves be freed when the reach the age of 25 and the introduction of new slaves to the stat be stopped.
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Nat Turner begins to me more interested and engaged in his religious beliefs.
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Nat Turner marries his wife, Cherry.
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The colonization company creates a colony for free slaves from the United States in Liberia.
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Nat now begins to preach in churches.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Nat begins to have visions that lead him to believe that he is a prophet.
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Nat Turner's Insurrection is postponed because Turner falls ill and is unable to fight.
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Nat Turner's Insurrection officially begins.
