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Here are discussions of Turner's religious visions—the instructions he received from God to kill all of

his white oppressors. Louis Masur places him against the backdrop of the nation's sectional crisis, and

 Douglas Egerton puts his revolt in the context of rebellions across the Americas. We trace

Turner's passage through American memory through fascinating interviews with William Styron . . .

 

Book Cover Art: James McGh
 

 

Nat Turner

 A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

Edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg

 

Table of Contents

Permissions vii
Introduction xi
Kenneth S. Greenberg

 

PART ONE: THE SEARCH FOR NAT TURNER
ONE Name, Face, Body 3
Kenneth S. Greenberg

 

TWO The Construction of The Confessions of Nat Turner 24
David F. Almendinger, Jr.

 

PART TWO: STORIES OF THE REBELLION
THREE The Event 45
Herbert Aptheker

 

FOUR Covenant in Jerusalem 58
Thomas C. Parramore

 

PART THREE: COMMUNITIES AND CONTEXTS
FIVE Symptoms of Liberty and Blackhead Signposts: David Walker and Nat Turner 79
Vincent Harding

 

SIX A Prophet in His Own Land: Support for Nat Turner and his Rebellion  103
within Southampton's Black Community
Patrick H. Breen

 

SEVEN Reading, Revelation, and Rebellion: The Textual Communities 119
of Gabriel, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner
James Sidbury

 

EIGHT Nat Turner in a Hemispheric Context 134
Douglass R. Egerton

 

NINE Nat Turner and Sectional Crisis 148
Louis P. Masur

 

TEN "What Happened in This Place?": In Search of the 162
Female Slave in the Nat Turner Slave Insurrection

 

PART FOUR: MEMORY
ELEVEN Styron's Choice: A Meditation on History, Literature, and Moral Imperatives 179
Charles Joyner

 

TWELVE Interview with William Styron 214

 

THIRTEEN Interview with Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. 228

 

Epilogue: Nat Turner in Hollywood 243
Kenneth S. Greenberg
Notes 251

Source: Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory: February 1, 2003; ISBN 0-19-513404-4; $35

Kenneth S. Greenberg is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Suffolk University. His books include Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery and Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting and Gambling in the Old South; and he is the editor of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents.

Greenberg is also a co-writer and co-producer of  the film Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, directed by Charles Burnett.

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Book Cover Art: James McGhee

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Nathaniel Turner TimeLine  / 1831 Confessions     /  Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner (Rudolph Lewis)

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Nathaniel Turner: Christian Martyrdom in Southampton: A Theology of Black Liberation (Rudolph Lewis)

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Nat Turner in History's Multiple Mirrors  (Felecia R. Lee, NYTimes)  /  Hatcher Plans to Exhibit Turner Skull

 

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Insurrection Of The Blacks Niles’ Register  Sept. 3 1831  Sept. 10, 1831  Sept 17, 1831

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The White Masters of the World

From The World and Africa, 1965

By W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization (Fletcher)

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Related files: Troublesome Property Reviews  Nat Turner in History's Multiple Mirrors  The Trouble With Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property   History and Memory Table    Rebellion in History and Memory 

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