I’ve published my first course, Learning How to Read History, as the foundation of the Smart Brown Girl School. It’s a course about orientation, how narratives are shaped, why simplification protects power, and how patterns repeat when they go unexamined.

The rebellion was originally planned for July 4, 1831. The date was deliberate. Turner understood the symbolism of American independence. Illness delayed the effort, and the group regrouped in August. On the night of August 21, Turner and six others began the uprising at the Travis plantation, where Turner was enslaved.