Muscogee people

8?5 The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 As details of Nat Turner?s Rebellion in August 1831 became known, southern white people shudder in fear at the prospects of slave uprisings. David Walker?s Appeal, and growing northern threat against the South?s peculiar institution only added to southern apprehension. Turner?s Rebellion led to increased slave patrols increased; across the South, state legislatures met in special sessions to deal with a possible emergency, even the Virginia legislature would soon consider abolishing slavery. Many states fortified their Slave Codes