NAT TURNER, HARRIET TUBMAN, AND ANOTHER MYSTERY TOPIC.

Nat Turner, born into slavery October 2, 1800, on a Southampton County plantation, became a preacher who claimed he had been chosen by God to lead slaves from bondage. On August 21, 1831, he led a violent, disorganized insurrection. He hid for six weeks but was eventually caught and later hanged. The incidents ended the emancipation in that region and lead to even harsher laws against slaves. Believing in signs and hearing divine voices, Turner was convinced by an eclipse of the Sun (1831) that the time to rise up had come, and he enlisted the help of four other slaves in the area.

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, Dorchester County, Maryland. She was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the rout of the Underground Railroad an elaborate secret network of safe houses. After the Civil War Tubman settled in Auburn and began taking in orphans and the elderly, a practice that eventuated in the Harriet Tubman Home for Indigent Aged Negroes. The home later attracted the support of former abolitionist comrades and of the citizens of Auburn, and it continued in existence for some years after her death. In the late 1860s and again in the late 1890s she applied for a federal pension for her Civil War services.

Catfish are raised in fresh water ponds only about four to six feet deep. Farm raised catfish are taught to eat feed pellets that float on top of the water. Wild catfish are bottom feeders. One catfish can lay up to 4,000 eggs a year per pound of body weight. Young catfish are called "sac fry" because they still live off of the food supplied by the yolk sacs. 

 Here is a picture of a Catfish!