Which of the following is true of Nat Turner?
A. He was convicted and executed in the early 1830s for having planned and executed a violent slave revolt.
B. He became an outspoken abolitionist after escaping to the North.
C. He regularly conducted raids into the slave states to help blacks escape to freedom.
D. He conducted extensive interviews with runaway slaves in writing antislavery pamphlets published in the 1830s.
Answer: A
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