description: Set in 1831, The Confessions Of Nat Turner tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that peculiar institution.
language: English
title: Confessions of Nat Turner
titlecomplete: Confessions of Nat Turner
genres: African American, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Historical, Race, Fiction, Literature, American
ratings_count: 14733
places: Virginia
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 28800000
name: William Dean Howells Medal, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Bantam Books