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The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray
Nat Turner
其他書名
In the Prison where He was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to be Such when Read Before the Court of Southampton ; with the Certificate, Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for His Trial
出版Amazon Classics
ISBN16625086039781662508608
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Z87uzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Nat Turner, enslaved preacher and prophet, marshaled dozens of his followers for a violent revolt that left fifty-five white people dead in Southampton County, Virginia. As the myth of the contented slave dissolved, the South panicked. Captured, tried, and convicted, Turner dictated his confessions to a local lawyer. Though some questions endure around the reliability of the narrative, as well as the place that such a complex figure should occupy in our historical consciousness, what is inarguable is that this 1831 rebellion marked an inflection point in America's racial conflict. To this day, The Confessions of Nat Turner inspires profound and provocative questions as the United States still wrestles with its own troubled past.