The rebellion that took place in the early 19th century in the United States was the Nat Turner Rebellion, which occurred in 1831. Led by enslaved African American Nat Turner, it involved a series of violent actions aimed at overthrowing the system of slavery in Virginia. Turner and his followers killed around 60 white individuals before being suppressed by local militias. This uprising led to a wave of fear among white slaveholders and resulted in harsher laws against enslaved people across the South, influencing the national debate over slavery and intensifying the sectional tensions that would eventually lead to the American Civil War.