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The confessions of Nat Turner /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: Y3596 | Signet BooksDescription: 404 pages ; 18 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3569.T9 C6 1968
Other classification:
  • HU 8763
Awards:
  • 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner
Summary: In the 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. This story 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F STY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS3569.T9 C66 1 Available 34517000141740

"A Signet book."

"First printing, September, 1968"--Verso of title-page.

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1967.

West, J.L.W. William Styron, 1977, A 4.II.a.1

In the 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. This story 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.

1968 Pulitzer Prize winner

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