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Nat Turner

American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)

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Jan 17, 2026
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Which presidents used the insurrection act

The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...

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Why did people in the south fight for slavery when they did not own slaves

Non-slaveholding whites in the antebellum South overwhelmingly supported the slave system because it underpinned the region’s economy, social hierarchy and political power — not just the fortunes of p...