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The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that led to the deaths of almost sixty men, women, and children. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that peculiar institution. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races."In 1967, when William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was published, it briefly looked as if a white southern liberal might have found an ideal story to tell a country torn by racial strife. Styron’s subject was a little-known historical event: America’s bloodiest slave revolt. He recounted it in the imagined voice of the Virginia slave-turned preacher who had led the rebellion. And the novel’s first readers, who included some of the most discriminating literary minds of the time, were overwhelmed. “I was stunned by p

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Author

William Styron

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936317097

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (282 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14