![]() ![]() He told the County Commissioners in July that “this is 2015, this is not 1860” and the name is “an insult. John Ricks, a retired Marine who lives in Southampton. The movement for renaming is being led by Mr. They tied Alfred to a tree and shot him, because they “deemed that his immediate execution would operate as a beneficial example to the other Insurgents - many of whom were still in arms and unsubdued”. Then a group of mounted militia from Greensville County came along. They disabled him “by cutting the longer tendon just above the heel in each leg” and left him there by the side of the road as they went in search of other rebels. According to a petition Waller filed with the Virginia legislature asking for compensation, Alfred was first caught by a small band of the local militia. It is likely that the slave involved was Alfred, a blacksmith owned by Levi Waller, whose wife and children were murdered in the rebellion. One of the first historians of the rebellion, writing in 1900, said that the signpost was “ever afterwards painted black as a warning against any future outrage.” ![]() In Southampton County, the scene of the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, there is a move afoot to rename “Blackhead Signpost Road.” The road takes its name from a rebel whose severed head was placed on a pole as a warning to others. Published 11:28am Saturday, August 15, 2015 ![]()
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