The Confessions of Nat Turner
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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 Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. This story is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 1967.
Year Published: 1967
Description: 455 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1450
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
055326916x :
0679736638 (pbk.) :
SUBJECTS
Turner, Nat, -- 1800?-1831 -- Fiction.
Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Fiction.
Slave insurrections -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Enslaved people -- Fiction.
Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.