He learned to read and write and was considered something of a neighborhood wonder. He had been told he was bound for greatness and now he apparently began to believe that he was. He escaped for thirty days but came back after having had a vision. He saw white and black spirits engaged in battle.
He has another vision. He then talks about how he and his cohorts met and how they murdered his master and his master's family. He describes how his group got bigger and how they carried out further murders, killing men, women and children alike. He says it 'twas my object to carry terror and devastation wherever we went.'
His killing spree suffered a setback as groups of whites, who had someone found out what was going on, apparently, gathered, armed, and fired upon Turner's group. Turner had planned to attack a town called Jerusalem but that doesn't work out. Gradually his group disperses and he took to hiding for six weeks until discovered.
Then there is a copy of the court's ruling and the death sentence passed upon Turner.
A list of those murdered.
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