Which of the following is true of Nat Turner?
A) He was convicted and executed in the early 1830s for having planned and executed a violent slave revolt.
B) He became an outspoken abolitionist after escaping to the North.
C) He regularly conducted raids into the slave states to help blacks escape to freedom.
D) He conducted extensive interviews with runaway slaves in writing antislavery pamphlets published in the 1830s.

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Nat Turner was an enslaved man who planned and led a violent rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. The rebellion resulted in the deaths of around 60 white people and led to a crackdown on enslaved people in the region, with many being executed or punished severely. Turner was eventually caught, tried, and executed for his role in the rebellion.

Which of the Following Is True of Nat Turner