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Nat Turner Slave Revolt. Two issues of Niles

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Nat Turner Slave Revolt. Two issues of Niles
Nat Turner Slave Revolt. Two issues of Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, reporting the historic Nat Turner slave revolt. Aug. 27 and Sept. 24, 1831, (16) pp. ea. A wealth of news of the day, in this, one of the earliest "news magazines." "Another riot took place on the railroad, near New Market, Frederick County...between the white and colored laborers...The Irish laborers rallied to the amount of 400 men...." Report from Norfolk on "Insurrection of the Blacks": "I have a horrible, a heart-rending tale to relate...A band of insurgent slaves (some of them believed to be runaways from the neighboring swamps)...murdered several whole families...The insurgents are believed to have from 100 to 150 mounted men, and about the same number on foot. They are armed with fowling pieces, clubs, &c...probably making their way for the Dismal Swamp...." Interesting account of the Mississippi River, and nullification in South Carolina. "We have great pleasure in saying that the report of the destruction of Wilmington, N.C. by the negroes, was altogether erroneous...." Executions in Virginia of those convicted in Nat Turner revolt. Urging emigration of blacks to Liberia to remedy the racial situation: "...If young females were encouraged to go, to keep the whole colored population in check...." First issue with considerable staining, the second very fine.