The confessions of Nat Turner
By: William Styron.
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
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
Genres: 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 Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. This story is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1967.