The confessions of Nat Turner
By: William Styron
Publisher: Bantam Books; Bantam Books, [1981, c1957].
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780553146684
Subjects: Southampton Insurrection, 1831; Southampton Insurrection (1831) fast (OCoLC)fst01127265; Fiction
Description: In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery ... The revolt was led by a remarkable preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to carry out the deed that haunts our conscience and flashes across our present like a blaze of summer lightning.