Nat Turner.
Series: Great lives observed; A Spectrum book
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831; Southampton Insurrection, 1831
Description: Reprints of contemporary sources.
Table of contents: title: Nat Turner and the Southampton Insurrection: Contemporary accounts. Trial and execution. The confessions of Nat Turner.; title: Americans react to the insurrection. Virginia reactions. Southern reactions. The slaves and Nat Turner. Reactions in the North. The abolitionist response. The attack on the abolitionists. Virginians demand action by the State legislature. Nat Turner and the Virginia debate on slavery. Virginia and other states strengthen their slave codes. The attack on freedom of discussion, and emergence of the proslavery argument.; title: Nat Turner in history: John Brown and Nat Turner. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: this extraordinary man. The Civil War and slave rebellion. A pioneer Black historian and Nat Turner. Nat Turner remembered: the 1880s. William S. Drewry on Nat Turner, 1900. 1931: the 100th anniversary of the Turner insurrection. Nat Turner remembered: the 1960s. The folk memory of Nat Turner.; title: Bibliography (p. 178-181)