Nat Turner was convicted and hanged on November 11, 1831. In the aftermath of the rebellion, both sides of the abolition debate hardened their positions, making the Civil War largely inevitable. Turner has been hailed as a hero, and his story was the subject of the 1967 William Styron novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.
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