Southampton County-Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newpapers.....Nat Turner's skull, 1896 

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Nat TURNER'S Skull 


  Richmond, Va., March 10. - (Special) - 
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  A Richmond lady has in her possession the skull of Nat. Turner, the negro 
insurrectionist, whose bloody work in Southampton county manv years ago 
created such a sensation throughout the South.  The gruesome relic belonged 
to the father of the lady in question who was a prominent physician of 
Southampton at the time that Turner was hanged. 
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"The Norfolk Virginian," Mar. 11, 1896, p. 8, col. 1 

A skull, purportedly Nat TURNER's, was returned to his relatives, Oct 2016, 
   from a private collection, and was to be sent to the Smithsonian Institute 
   for DNA testing; photo of skull posted with article: 
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/01-02/nat-turner-slave-rebellion-southampton-virginia/

An opinion piece states it had been owned by Richard Hatcher, Mayor of 
   Gary, IN; editorial at: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/nat-turners-skull-and-my-students-purse-of-skin.html 

A recent history has been published: 
   Breen, Patrick H.  "The Land Shall Be Deluged with Blood: 
   A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt." 
   New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 

Breen also contributed the article on the revolt in Encyclopedia Virginia: 
   https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Revolt_Nat_Turner_s_1831 

Court proceedings on the Southampton Insurrection, Aug-Nov 1831, 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/court/ol_nat.txt 

Dr. Hack Urquhart STEPHENSON, of Toano, supposedly had Nat TURNER's 
   skeleton; article ("The {Richmond} Times," Oct. 14, 1897, p. 7) posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/19010513rt.txt 

The death notice of William "Buck" MALLORY claimed he had skinned Nat TURNER, 
"and the hide being tanned, portions of it are now in the 'curiousity shops' 
of many residents in and about Southampton." 
"The Daily Dispatch" (Richmond, VA), July 18, 1860, p. 1, col. 4, 
citing the "Petersburg (Va.) Express."  File at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m460w2ob.txt 

See also an article that appeared in several papers in 1892 - 
   "A RAZOR STRAP FROM THE SKIN OF NAT TURNER" - posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/09151892ag.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/18960311nv.txt