The Confessions of Nat Turner
- ISBN-10
- 0099285568
- ISBN-13
- 9780099285564
- Series
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Category
- Slave insurrections
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- William Styron
Description
Set in 1831, "The Confessions Of Nat Turner" tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that "peculiar institution."
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