The Confessions of Nat Turner is the key primary document supporting historical events. It is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.
The Confessions of Nat TurnerAn Authentic Account of the Whole InsurrectionThe time is November, 1831. Black slave Nat Turner sits in a Virginia jail awaiting execution for his crimes.
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.
Nat Turner is widely regarded as one of the most complex figures in American history and literature.
The Confessions of Nat Turner - An Authentic Account of the Whole Insurrection - Nat Turner - Thomas R. Gray - FULL ACCOUNT INCLUDING CONFESSION - "The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, ...
That this is a faithful record of his confessions, the annexed certificate of the County Court of Southampton, will attest. They certainly bear one stamp of truth and sincerity.
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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.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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 ...
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.
Written in the mid-1960s, this novel addresses the horrible inequities that still existed then in the lives of African-Americans, and what those inequities do to the human equation.
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 .
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...
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 compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
First-hand account of Nat Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.