Oh, I'm so miser'blel Ijest wants to die. But I'm skeered of dyin'. Kin all men have pride? Kin all men be redeemed?” “Yes,” I said, “all men can have pride. And all men can be redeemed—by baptism in the Spirit.
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
Nat Turner. managed so far to put it into execution, as to deprive us of many of our most valuable citizens; and this was done when they were asleep, and defenceless; under circumstances shocking to humanity. And while upon this part of ...
New to this edition is a significant excerpt from David Walker’s 1830 Appeal – a radical attack on slavery from a Boston based African American intellectual that circulated near the area of the rebellion and echoed key themes of The ...
The Confessions of Nat Turner: An Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection. Nat Turner was an American slave who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831.
They went from plantation to plantation killing whites indiscriminately. Nat's detailed review of his life and the uprising can be read in the pages of this text.
The central document in this volume — Nat Turner's confession follwing the rebellion in Virginia — is supported by newspaper articles, trial transcripts, and excerpts from the diary of Virginia governor John Floyd.
In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist preacher to recover the haunting persona of this legendary American slave rebel, telling of his self-discovery and the ...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va