Various pamphlets were written immediately after the insurrection not so much to give detailed accounts as to discuss the general problem of the Negro and the reaction of the white citizens of Charleston to the event.  Of these we may note the following: 

1.  Holland, Edwin C.:  A Refutation of the Calumnies Circulated against the Southern and Western States. (See main list above.)

2.  Achates (General Thomas Pinckney):  Reflections Occasioned by the Late Disturbances in Charleston.  Charleston, 1822.

3.  Rev. Dr. Richard Furman’s Exposition of the Views of the Baptists Relative to the Colored Population in the United States. (See main list above.)

4.  Practical Considerations Founded on the Scriptures Relative to the Slave Population of South Carolina.  By a South Carolinian.  Charleston, 1823.

Nat Turner

1.  The Confessions of Nat Turner, Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thos.  C. Gray, in the prison where he was confined—­and acknowledged by him to be such, when read before the court at Southampton, convened at Jerusalem November 5, 1831, for his trial. (This is the main source.  Thousands of copies of the pamphlet are said to have been circulated, but it is now exceedingly rare.  Neither the Congressional Library nor the Boston Public has a copy, and Cromwell notes that there is not even one in the State Library in Richmond.  The copy used by the author is in the library of Harvard University.)

2.  Horrid Massacre.  Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22nd of August last.  New York, 1831. (This gives a table of victims and has the advantage of nearness to the event.  This very nearness, however, has given credence to much hearsay and accounted for several instances of inaccuracy.)

To the above may be added the periodicals of the day, such as the Richmond Enquirer and the Liberator; note Genius of Universal Emancipation, September, 1831.  Secondary accounts or studies would include the following: 

1.  Nat Turner’s Insurrection, exhaustive article by Higginson (Atlantic, VIII. 173) later included in Travellers and Outlaws.

2.  Drewry, William Sidney:  Slave Insurrections in Virginia (1830-1865).  A Dissertation presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  The Neale Company, Washington, 1900. (Unfortunately marred by a partisan tone.)

3.  The Aftermath of Nat Turner’s Insurrection, by John W. Cromwell, in Journal of Negro History, April, 1920.

Amistad and Creole Cases

1.  Argument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the United States, Apellants, vs.  Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the Schooner Amistad, by Lieut.  Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841.  New York, 1841.