an ongoing pictorial project by Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Connecticut Avenue & M Street . NW WDC . 20 Jan 05
Photog Documentary Project
Turner's Confession - A Tribute to Nat Turner
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| P H O T O A N A R C H Y an ongoing pictorial project by Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography |
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| Anarchist . J20-05 Counter-Inagural Connecticut Avenue & M Street . NW WDC . 20 Jan 05 |
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| Sir - You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it - To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born. I was thirty one years of age the 2nd of October last, and born the property of Benj. Turner, of this county. In my childhood a circumstance occurred which made an indelible impression on my mind, and laid the ground work of that enthusium, which has terminated so fatally to many, both white and black, for which I am about to atone at the gallows. It is here necessary to relate this circumstance - trifling as it may seem, it was the commencement of that beleif which has grown with time, and even now, sir, in this dungeon, helpless and forsaken as I am, I cannot divest myself of ... Turner's Confession - A Tribute to Nat Turner |
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| Under Construction 6 February 2005 Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography |
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