Update: October 13, 1:45 p.m. — The family has temporarily given the skull to the Smithsonian Institution, which will conduct a DNA test to determine if it is, in fact, Turner's.

Six weeks after Nat Turner led a bloody slave revolt that left approximately 60 whites dead in 1831, he was hanged and decapitated. History is not entirely clear on what happened to Turner’s … ...

The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Shortly after Nat Turner led a slave revolt that killed nearly 60 white Southside residents in 1831, his head was chopped off and carted away for study. His captors hoped that … ...