Looking out the window while traveling a road on what seems to be a lonely side of Virginia. This moment captures me in such deep thought. Ironically, I am awash with feelings of gratitude, courage, and hope but also sadness, grief, pique. Only a short distance eastward, out of the very window through which I gaze is the area where the most impactful rebellion against the institution of American slavery occurred led by a Christian slave preacher named Nat Turner. Albeit the