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Black History Month event recreates Nat Turner revolt

February 24, 2017 By Rob Abruzzese Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Black History Month co-chairs Leah Richardson (left) and Hon. Deborah Dowling (right) join Jose Rodriguez and June Farrow, who played the parts of Nat Turner and the mother of one of his followers, respectively, during a Black History Month event at the courthouse on Friday. Photo courtesy of the Kings County Black History Month Committee
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As part of Black History Month, the Kings County Supreme Court hosted a Sip and Chat with Nat Turner at the court on Friday, Feb. 17 that was designed to give the audience a lesson on the life of Nat Turner.

Nat Turner, who believed that he was chosen by God to lead a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, and was later hanged, was played by attorney Jose Rodriguez. In the talk, Rodriguez recreated the events of Aug. 21, 1831 in which slave owner Joseph Travis was killed by Turner and seven other slaves. The group then set off hoping to rally more slaves with the plan to capture an armory in Jerusalem, Virginia.

Turner is then confronted by a mother of one of those slaves, played by court employee June Farrow, who is heartbroken with Turner for causing the rebellion that led to the death of her son.


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