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A lithograph propaganda poster encouraging support of the Red Army by an unknown artist, 1919. The poster features two figures: on the right a soldier in a cossack-style hat and coat, holding a rifle, and on the left a proletarian...

Cover of the 1967 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron based on the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray. Designed by Paul Bacon.

Front of the Belmont Estate House, located on Buckhorn Quarter Road east of Capron in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. Built in 1790, it was the site of the concluding episode of Nat Turner's...

Title page of The Confessions of Nat Turner by T. R. Gray, printed by T. H. White, 1832. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, oil on canvas by David Edward Cronin, 1888, New York Historical Society.

Discovery of Nat Turner, wood engraving by William Henry Shelton illustrating Benjamin Phipps's capture of rebel slave leader Nat Turner (l. 1800-1831) on October 30, 1831.

John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), US secretary of war, etching by James Barton Longacre. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, New York Public Library.

A cigar box depicting the Petticoat affair (1829-1831); Margaret 'Peggy' Eaton (née O'Neill) is depicted in the center. To the left, President Andrew Jackson offers her flowers – symbolizing his support for her...

Martin Van Buren around the time he was serving as Andrew Jackson's secretary of state. Oil on panel portrait by Francis Alexander, 1830. White House Collection, Washington, D.C.

Andrew Jackson as the seventh president of the United States (1829-37), oil on canvas portrait by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1835. White House Collection, Washington, D.C.