The Confessions of Nat Turner
- ISBN-10
- 0553146688
- ISBN-13
- 9780553146684
- Series
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Author
- William Styron
Description
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 preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to carry out the deed that haunts our conscience and flashes across our present like a blaze of summer lightning.
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