ot;Denmark Vesey" 1). During the ensuing two months, some 130 blacks were arrested ("Denmark Vesey" 1). In the trials that followed, 67 were convicted of trying to raise an insurrection; of these, 35, including Vesey, were hanged, and 32 were condemned to exile ("Denmark Vesey" 1). In addition, four white men were fined and imprisoned for encouraging the plot ("Denmark Vesey" 1).
             The only effective, sustained slave uprising was led by American bondsman Nat Turner ("Nat Turner" 1). Nat Turner was born the property of a prosperous small-plantation owner in a remote area of Virginia ("Nat Turner" 1). His mother was an African native who passed on a passionate hatred of slavery to her son ("Nat Turner" 1). He learned to read from one of the master's sons, and eagerly absorbed intensive religious training ("Nat Turner" 1). In the early 1820s he was sold to a neighboring farmer ("Nat
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