455 pages
English language
Published June 4, 1992 by Vintage Books.
The confessions of Nat Turner
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This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led a large slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The novel attempts to explore the reasons for the bloodthirsty revolt in which Turner and his followers killed a number of white plantation owners before being apprehended, tried and hanged.
Subjects
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction
- Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Fiction
- Slave insurrections -- Fiction
- African American men -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Slaves -- Fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction