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 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.
This is the original document, as told to a white southerner name of Thomas Gray.
The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the...
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...
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
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 ...
Nat Turner is widely regarded as one of the most complex figures in American history and American literature.
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
The Confessions of Nat Turner by Nat Turner.
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.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers. "Was Christ not crucified?
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.