Nat Turner before the bar of judgment : fictional treatments of the Southampton slave insurrection /
Davis, Mary Kemp,1948-
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of repression : Governor John Floyd's official address -- Let the rope talk : the case of the mute defendants -- The kidnapped witnesses : G.P.R. James's The old dominion -- The grand and solemn voice hushed : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred -- The accusing eyes of history : Mary Spear Tiernan's Homoselle -- Transgressing the codes : Pauline Carrington Rust Bouvé's Their shadows before -- The crime of innocence : Daniel Panger's Ol' prophet Nat -- The hour of his judgment : William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
Southampton Insurrection, 1831
Literature and history
Slave insurrections
American fiction
American fiction
Historical fiction, American
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.