William Styron called "The Confessions of" this slave revolt leader "a meditation on history"
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How Nat Turner Explained the Slave Rebellion He Led | TIME  Aug 22, 2016 ... Then, in 1967, the novelist William Styron's The Confessions of Nat ... an award-winning bestseller, which he called a meditation on history...
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William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner - College Term Papers  William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner is a work of historical fiction that centers on a hero with a goal. ... of Nat Turner is less an historical novel than it is a meditation on history. ... Nat Turner: Slave Resurrection Leader ... an individual named Nat Turner had led a violent slave revolt and still remained at large,...
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William Styron's Nat Turner and its Critics - JStor  pamphlet of some twenty pages called The Confessions of Nat Turner/ pub- lished in Richmond early in ... known facts about Nat Turner and the revolt of which he was the leader." He ... than a meditation on history.2. The initial ... historian and author of two books on slave revolts.3 Writing in The Nation ,. Aptheker took issue...
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Styron's Choice - 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' at 40 - The New ...  Sep 5, 2008 ... When William Styron published The Confessions of Nat Turner 40 ... The Confessions of Nat Turner, an account of an 1831 slave revolt in ... a slim volume of essays called William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond. ... he chose to write a meditation on history, giving him dimensions of...
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A black director, a white author, and their differing accounts of rebel ...  Feb 25, 2016 ... Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation" and William Styron's "The Confessions of Nat Turner" ... nearly $10 million and makes a movie about the rebel slave Nat Turner. ... He called the novel "a defamation," as if borrowing a page from the ... half a terrible reckoning of the revolt  into "a meditation on history.".
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Consolidation and Schism 1821-1861 The Tree of Liberty  Blacks and Native Americans (not to mention women) were totally excluded from the ... After trial, eighteen slaves were put to death, some by hanging and others by ... Thomas Gray claimed to have taken Nat Turner's confession prior to his trial ... he who commences any reform which at last becomes one of transcendent...
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Nonfiction Book Review: William Styron: A Life by James L. W. West ...  Often thwarted by writer's block despite his literary successes, Styron had his most ... West, III, Author Random House (NY) $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-41054-6 ... known for the striking Holocaust novel Sophie's Choice, in which the heroine is,...
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Biblical Scholars - ChickenBones  Oct 20, 2007 ... But he was an 'exhorter', and he clearly convinced his fellow slaves by the power ..... 'The Prophet,' as Turner was called by the slaves, was caught and sent to .... our fathers and mothers of the early 19th-century America slavocracy. .... Then followed a massacre during which not only the insurrectionists but...
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Great Revolt of 1381 - McMaster University  Nothing is better known than the fact that in an old agricultural community the .... document calls him Walter Tyler of Colchester: if so, he was a compatriot of ..... involved in the collection of a great body of ignorant peasants led by ...... Doctor F. W. Brie, will have it that Jack Straw is no real person at all, but a mere nickname.
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Companion to African American Novel - Scribd  Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. ..... Studying the novel of slavery sheds light on the relationship between slavery and freedom. ... its symbiotic relationship to world literature. the blues novel is certainly one place where ..... He published a revised version of Clotel under the title of Miralda. ..... the slave valet.
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Brooklyn Museum: Sojourner Truth  She was written about by Harriet Beecher Stowe in numerous publications, including an 1863 essay Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl. ... Frederick Douglass had organized African American support for the rally, and Sojourner Truth ... Responding to the numerous male speakers who declared that women were weak and...
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Nat Turner's slave rebellion - Wikipedia  Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831. ... Nat Turner tried, convicted, and hanged ... The state executed 56 slaves accused of being part of the rebellion. .... A trial was quickly arranged; On November 5, 1831, Nat Turner was tried for "conspiring to...
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Nat Turner and the Slave Revolt - The Blue and Gray Trail  November 5, 1831, Nat Turner is tried and convicted for leading a slave uprising, Virginia ... Turner admitted after the uprising that he had been well-treated by his master. ... After eating dinner in the woods on the evening of Monday, August 21, ... At his trial on November 5, 1831, Nat Turner was sentanced to die by hanging...
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"Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie's Choice" by ...  He has murmured that he would like to get her into bed; she blurts out in German that ... Stingo, the narrator of William Styron's 1979 novel Sophie's Choice, asks, "Why ... will live and which will die; she survives within the camp when others do not, ... We still see this opposition between agent and victim used against female...
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Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. By Stephen B. Oates  Born in 1800, Nat Turner was identified as a bright youth who developed a zeal ... believing God had specially chosen him to smite the institution of slavery. ... At around 25 Turner believed that God had sent him a message to lead his people to freedom. He kept this plan to himself but began to build up support in the black...
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Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown ...  Nathan said: 4.5/5You may place the slave where you please; you may dry up to your utmost the fountains of his ... ... that it was known even in 1853 that Jefferson had children who were slaves. ...... Thomas Jefferson's affairs with slaves, William Wells Brown wrote a novel which points out the hypocrisy of having the man...
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Five Interesting Facts About William Styron - Books Tell You Why  Jun 11, 2016 ... Legendary Authors ... After graduating from Duke University following a stint in the United States ... found a job at McGraw-Hill as a reader for the publishing house. ... Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, earned him the Prix de Rome ... Styron had to delay his year in Rome until after his military service...
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Sophie's Choice: William Styron: 9780679736370: Amazon.com ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "Students preparing research papers and students boning up for ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ... Start reading Sophie's Choice: A Novel (Open Road) on your Kindle in under a ... a Polish Christian who survived 18 months in Auschwitz before the camp was...
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J! Archive - Show #5481, aired 2008-06-09  A review said this 1979 William Styron novel "belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces"...
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21st August 1831  Nat Turner's Rebellion | Dorian Cope presents ...  Born in 1800, Turner had been taught to read by his first owner who believed ... and freedom from the Bible, and was soon preaching to the other slaves the ... he believed that he was chosen by God to deliver his people from bondage ... I just wish that more black though like nat, maybe we as black people would be further.