The aftermath of Turner’s rebellion changed America forever. It ended the myth of the "contented slave" and set the nation on an irreversible path toward the
In the frantic aftermath, white mobs murdered nearly 200 Black people, many of whom had no connection to the revolt. Strict New Laws:
Nat Turner’s rebellion did not end slavery; it refined it. In the wake of 1831, every Southern state passed draconian new codes. But the sugar planters wrote the bloodiest chapters:
Turner was not a sugar hand. Virginia was tobacco and mixed crop country. But the political economy of Virginia was intimately tied to the sugar bowl of Louisiana. In fact, the massive profits from selling "surplus" slaves to the Toni Sweets plantations of the Deep South were the reason Virginia’s economy survived the collapse of tobacco prices.
