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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

Vintage Books (2004)
9780099285564
| Paperback
417 pages | 129 x 200 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Genre

  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • African American Men
  • African Americans
  • American Fiction
  • Slave Insurrections
  • Southampton Insurrection, 1831

Plot

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.