Nat Turner A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory Table of Contents

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

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Book Cover Art: James McGhee

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update 28 June 2008

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.