Biography
Booker was an enslaved man jailed in Sussex County, Virginia, during prosecutions following Nat Turner’s 1831 uprising. Accused of seditious speech and threats, he was convicted on September 13 and remanded to jail under a death sentence.
Booker was identified in the Sussex court records through his association with Samuel Raines. During a trial on September 13, 1831, he appeared in the custody of the county jailer alongside Solomon and Nicholas. The men pleaded not guilty to allegations of seditious words and threats to rebel.
The prosecution relied on Beck’s account of conversations at a May gathering at Raccoon Meeting House. Witnesses raised questions about her earlier statements. The court convicted Booker and ordered him returned to jail pending an execution scheduled for September 23. The records reviewed do not confirm when that execution occurred.
