108, Sections 5 and 6.
The whole country was again disturbed by the insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

The slave States then had a striking example of what the intelligent Negroes of the South might eventually do.

The leader of this uprising was Nat Turner.

Precocious as a youth he had learned to read so easily that he did not remember when he first had that attainment.[1] Given unusual social and intellectual advantages, he developed into a man of considerable "mental ability and wide information." His education was chiefly acquired in the Sunday-schools in which "the text-books for the small children were the ordinary speller and reader, and that for the older Negroes the Bible."[2] He had received instruction also from his parents and his indulgent young master, J.C.

Turner.
[Footnote 1] Drewery, _Insurrections in Virginia_, p.