Footnote 116: [(return)]
The figure is sometimes given as 37, but the lists total 43.
Footnote 117: [(return)]
In "Horrid Massacre," or, to use the more formal title, "Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene which was Witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August Last," the list below of the victims of Nat Turner's insurrection is given. It must be said about this work, however, that it is not altogether impeccable; it seems to have been prepared very hastily after the event, its spelling of names is often arbitrary, and instead of the fifty-five victims noted it appears that at least fifty-seven white persons were killed:
| Joseph Travis, wife and three children | 5 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, Hartwell Peebles, and Sarah Newsum | 3 |
| Mrs. Piety Reese and son, William | 2 |
| Trajan Doyal | 1 |
| Henry Briant, wife and child, and wife's mother | 4 |
| Mrs. Catherine Whitehead, her son Richard, four daughters and a grandchild | 7 |
| Salathael Francis | 1 |
| Nathaniel Francis's overseer and two children | 3 |
| John T. Barrow and George Vaughan | 2 |
| Mrs. Levi Waller and ten children | 11 |
| Mr. William Williams, wife and two boys | 4 |
| Mrs. Caswell Worrell and child | 2 |
| Mrs. Rebacca Vaughan, Ann Eliza Vaughan, and son Arthur | 3 |
| Mrs. Jacob Williams and three children and Edwin Drewry | 5 |
| — | |
| 55 |
Footnote 118: [(return)]
The only copy that the author has seen is that in the library of Harvard University.
Footnote 119: [(return)]
Drewry, 101.
Footnote 120: [(return)]
Charity Bowery, who gave testimony to L.M. Child, quoted by Higginson.
CHAPTER VIII
THE NEGRO REPLY, II: ORGANIZATION AND AGITATION
It is not the purpose of the present chapter primarily to consider social progress on the part of the Negro. A little later we shall endeavor to treat this interesting subject for the period between the Missouri Compromise and the Civil War. Just now we are concerned with the attitude of the Negro himself toward the problem that seemed to present itself to America and for which such different solutions were proposed. So far as slavery was concerned, we have seen that the remedy suggested by Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner was insurrection. It is only to state an historical fact, however, to say that the great heart of the Negro people in the South did not believe in violence, but rather hoped and prayed for a better day to come by some other means. But what was the attitude of those people, progressive citizens and thinking leaders, who were not satisfied with the condition of the race and who had to take a stand on the issues that confronted them? If we study the matter from this point of view, we shall find an amount of ferment and unrest and honest difference of opinion that is sometimes overlooked or completely forgotten in the questions of a later day.