Over the course of two days, the rebels killed between 55 and 60 white men, women, and children.
Locals colloquially called it The marketing was simple: a barrel stenciled with a smiling, caricatured slave holding a stalk of cane. The tagline, carved into the shipping manifests bound for New York and Boston, read: "Pure as the Driven Snow, Sweet as the Southern Sun."
Years later, a student named Mariah found Toni in her classroom and asked if history could ever be changed. Toni smiled and opened the battered Bible. “We can’t change what happened,” she said, “but we can change what we do with the stories.” Mariah’s eyes were wide. “So we learn,” she said. “So we act differently.”
Toni Sweets is an American actress known for her role in the film A Brief American History (with Nat Turner)
Toni Sweets would have doubled its hired "patty rollers." Armed white men rode through the quarters at night, searching for drums, horns, or any African-derived religious practice. Methodism and Baptist worship among slaves was driven entirely underground.