Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Styron, William |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 11/10/1992 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there tookplace 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 educatedslave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in theregion.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers injail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story rangesover the whole of Nat’s Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax thatbloody day in August.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpieceof storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essenceof Negro the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophicevent, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations–and hopes–which causedthis extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history andstrike down those who held his people in bondage.
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