Nat Turner. / Edited by Eric Foner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foner, Eric, 1943- compiler.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Great lives observed

A Spectrum book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.

Turner, Nat.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971.

Contents:

Part One: Nat Turner and the Southampton Insurrection. Contemporary Accounts; Trial and Execution; The Confessions of Nat Turner

Part Two: Americans React to the Insurrection. Virginia Reactions; Southern Reactions; The Slaves and Nat Turner; Reactions in the North; The Abolitionist Response; The Attack on the Abolitionists; Virginians Demand Action by the State Legislature; Nat Turner and the Virginia Debate on Slavery; Virginia and Other States Strengthen Their Slave Codes; The Attack on Freedom of Discussion, and Emergence of the Proslavery Argument

Part Three: Nat Turner in History. John Brown and Nat Turner; Tomas Wentworth Higginson: "This Extraordinary Man"; The Civil War and Slave Rebellion; A Pioneer Black Historian and Nat Turner; Nat Turner Remembered: The 1880s; William S. Drewry on Nat Turner, 1900; 1931: The 100th Anniversary of the Turner Insurrection; Nat Turner Remembered: The 1960s; The Folk Memory of Nat Turner.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Bennett Robinson."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-181) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0139331433

0139331352

OCLC:

172772