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Nat: Slaves
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The Nat caricature portrays African and African American males as angry, crazed, revengeful brutes with a bloodthirsty hatred for Whites. Like many anti-Black caricatures, the Nat portrayal was popularized during American slavery. John Wesley Blassingame, a prominent historian, reviewed slavery era literary stereotypes of Black men and argued that three dominated: Sambo, a submissive, childlike buffoon; Jack, a sullen, rational pragmatist; and the hateful Nat. Blassingame contrasted the Sambo and Nat caricatures this way:
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Nat started with a few trusted fellow slaves. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing all the white people they found. The rebels ultimately included more than 50 enslaved and free blacks.
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Over the next twenty-four hours, Nat Turner led a small group of slaves from farm to farm, killing every white man, woman and child they encountered. They gathered guns and more recruits during a brief but bloody revolt that spread terror throughout the slave-holding South.
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