Robert James Turnbull
Robert James Turnbull (January 1775 - June 15, 1833) was an American
planter, writer and politician from South Carolina who also published under the name Brutus. His essays in the Charleston Mercury advocating nullification were published as a pamphlet under the title The Crisis: Or, Essays on the Usurpations of the Federal Government, which has been described as "the handbook for nullification and resistance."[1]
Background
Turnbull's father was Andrew Turnbull, a British physician who married a
plantation
in the rural part of the state.
Denmark Vesey
In July 1822, Turnbull served on the seven-man court that tried Denmark Vesey and a number of his co-conspirators, who had planned a slave rebellion. It sentenced 34 of them to death (including Vesey and his closest lieutenants, Peter Poyas and Gullah Jack) and 37 others to penal transportation outside the state.[2]
Political leadership
Turnbull wrote a series of articles on nullification and
Nullification Crisis
which he had played such a role in precipitating.
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