[WARNER, SAMUEL]. Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August Last, When Fifty-Five of its Inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly Massacred by the Blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the Blacks whie under Sentence of Death. [New York: Printed for Warner & West, 1831. First edition. Stitched as issued in the original blue paper wrappers, housed in cloth clamshell case. 8 x 5 inches (20 x 12.5 cm); 38 pp., folding woodcut frontispiece, an uncut and untrimmed copy. Stains and small losses to wrappers, old dampstaining and stains within, one fold of the plate strengthened.

A very rare copy of one of the first reports of the Nat Turner rebellion, albeit highly sensational. In August 1831, Turner led other rebelling slaves to kill as many as 65 white people, the largest amount in any slave insurrection in the South. Turner went into hiding while mobs, militias, and the state executed up to 150 slaves. The crude woodcut is titled "Horrid Massacre in Virginia." The pamphlet was published before Nat Turner was eventually captured and hanged. Howes W113.