The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to...

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to...
ISBN-10
1662508603
ISBN-13
9781662508608
Series
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Category
Murder
Pages
24
Language
English
Published
1832
Publisher
T.R. Gray
Author
Nat Turner

Description

Nat Turner, enslaved preacher and prophet, marshaled dozens of his followers for a violent revolt that left fifty-five white people dead in Southampton County, Virginia. As the myth of the contented slave dissolved, the South panicked. Captured, tried, and convicted, Turner dictated his confessions to a local lawyer. Though some questions endure around the reliability of the narrative, as well as the place that such a complex figure should occupy in our historical consciousness, what is inarguable is that this 1831 rebellion marked an inflection point in America's racial conflict. To this day, The Confessions of Nat Turner inspires profound and provocative questions as the United States still wrestles with its own troubled past.

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