In 1824 Nat Turner had a vision which he saw lights in the sky and the Spirit of God told Turner to take it upon him and fight the Serpent (slave masters). After the vision Nat Turner prayed to the Spirit and found out it meant to be forceful and free His people by force. Seven years later in February of 1831 an eclipse of the sun convinced Turner that it was a sign from God to start an insurrection, and to lead His people out of bondage. God was tired of seeing His people struggle, so He found a great leader who was not afraid to start the rebellion. One day Nat Turner was in the field laboring and,
… While laboring in the field, I discovered drops of blood on the corn, as though it were dew from heaven, I communicated it to many, both white and black, in the neighborhood; and then I found on the leaves in the woods hieroglyphic characters and the numbers, with the forms of men in different attitudes, portrayed in blood and representing the figures I had seen in the heavens and......

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