he says, drops of blood on the corn “as though it were dew from heaven.” As he walked in the woods, he found leaves with hieroglyphics and ” numbers, with the forms of men in different attitudes, portrayed in blood, and representing the figures I had seen before in heavens”” (Goldman 64). Then on May 12th 1828 he had received his first sign, a noise that came from above. After the noise, he stated “the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first” (Bisson 55). Later on during the year, his master, Thomas Moore, died and he was now the property of a nine year old, Putnam Moore, his son. As months pass by, Nat had finally found what he was looking for on February 1831, which was an eclipse of the sun. With the eclipse of the sun Nat had chosen 20 people, which he had trusted, to be apart of his rebellion that was set for July 4, 1831. As July 4th arrived, the plan for rebellion was off because of his illness. Not for long, Turner had received his second sign, on August 13th, which was the sun appearing a strange color. When he saw this, he then got together and started planning with his “chosen four”: Hark Travis, Nelson Williams, Henry Porter, and Sam Francis.On August 21st 1831, Turner and his followers met in the woods near Cabin Pond to discus about the plans for the rebellion. These plans would then take “…place over the forty-eight-hour period that began on that dusky morning on Monday, August 22” (Goldman 69). On the morning of August 22nd 1831, at 2 A.M., their first target for liberation was the Travis household, his white slave master. As being “... the leader of the rebellion Turner knew that he must ...
