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Nat Turner : a slave rebellion in history and memory / edited by Kenneth R. Greenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831.
- Turner, Nat.
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831--Influence.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831.
- Enslaved persons--Virginia--Southampton County--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leader of an important slave rebellion, murderer of unarmed men and women, beacon of freedom, and religious fanatic - the contradictory figure of Nat Turner represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. This biography offers insight into the man, his rebellion, and his time.
- Contents:
- Permissions; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: THE SEARCH FOR NAT TURNER; ONE: Name, Face, Body; TWO: The Construction of The Confessions of Nat Turner; PART TWO: STORIES OF THE REBELLION; THREE: The Event; FOUR: Covenant in Jerusalem; PART THREE: COMMUNITIES AND CONTEXTS; FIVE: Symptoms of Liberty and Blackhead Signposts: David Walker and Nat Turner; SIX: A Prophet in His Own Land: Support for Nat Turner and His Rebellion within Southampton's Black Community; SEVEN: Reading, Revelation, and Rebellion: The Textual Communities of Gabriel, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner
- EIGHT: Nat Turner in a Hemispheric ContextNINE: Nat Turner and Sectional Crisis; TEN: "What Happened in This Place?": In Search of the Female Slave in the Nat Turner Slave Insurrection; PART FOUR: MEMORY; ELEVEN: Styron's Choice: A Meditation on History, Literature, and Moral Imperatives; TWELE: Interview with William Styron; THIRTEEN: Interview with Alvin; Epilogue: Nat Turner in Hollywood; Notes
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2003.
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771487-0
- 0-19-020773-6
- 1-280-53082-0
- 0-19-803063-0
- 1-4237-8479-0
- OCLC:
- 630529127
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