Thomas R. Gray, during the time of the interview, was a man of thirty-one years of age and was not very successful in his practice as a lawyer and a farmer. Gradually having to sell off his land bit by bit and many of his slaves, Gray tried to find other occupations that might pay higher than his current job. When the Nat Turner rebellion occurred, Gray had to have realized how big this story …showed first 75 words of 863 total…

…showed last 75 words of 863 total…whom I left, had not been idle; all the family were already murdered. If Gray wanted Turner to appear to be a psychopathic killer, he would have written that Turner participated more in the killings, instead of just mainly watching. Thomas Gray seemed like a greedy man who was always looking into things to see what he could get out of it. He wanted everybody to think like him and thought he was always right.