The Confessions of Nat Turner
New York : Vintage Books, 1993 [i.e. 1992]
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage international edition.
Description: xviii, 455 pages ; 21 cm
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. This story is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
Contents:
Judgment day -- Old times past, voices, dreams, recollections -- Study war -- "It is done ..." -- Afterword: Nat Turner revisited.
Subjects:
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
Southampton Insurrection (1831)
1775 - 1865
Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831 -- Fiction.
Slave rebellions -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
African American men.
African Americans.
Slave insurrections.
Slaves.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.
Virginia.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
Southampton Insurrection (1831)
1775 - 1865
Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831 -- Fiction.
Slave rebellions -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
African American men.
African Americans.
Slave insurrections.
Slaves.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.
Virginia.
Target Audience: 1450L
ISBN:
0679736638
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Styron | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
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Originally published: New York : Random House, 1967.
1968 Pulitzer Prize winner
1968 Pulitzer Prize winner