Rise Up The legacy of Nat Turner (2016)

In 1831 African American slave and preacher Nat Turner lead a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County Virginia It was a fight against the enslavement of African and American people of color who longed for freedom from tyranny This onehour doc follows Roger Guenveur Smith as he travels to Southampton County Virginia to take viewers on a physical journey through the town fields and farms where Turner lived fought and died along the way meeting with academics locals and descendants to peel back the layers of one of the most misunderstood Americans in history In addition to candid discussions on historical and contemporary racial tensions Roger asks us to consider why Turner is not lofted up across America as an early black revolutionary figure who helped to shape the nation