Confessions of Nat Turner - Softcover

Styron, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055326916X ISBN 13: 9780553269161

Verlag: Bantam Books, 1983

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A fictionalized account of the 1831 slave insurrection in Virginia, led by Nat Turner

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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.

The Confessions of Nat Turner 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.

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black

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• Verlag: Bantam Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 055326916X
• ISBN 13: 9780553269161
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
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