num_pages: 416
description: Turner's Rebellion took place in the long hot summer of 1831, in the state of Virginia. When it was over, 59 white people were dead; the insurgents were rounded up and either hanged or worse; and Nat Turner, a preacher, confessed to his part in the only effective revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. In his introduction of this Pulitzer Prize winner, Styron says "it has been my own intention to try to re-create a man and his era, and to produce a work that is less an historical novel in conventional terms than a meditation on history."
language: English
title: The Confessions of Nat Turner
titlecomplete: The 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: Black Swan