404 pages
Published Nov. 7, 1968 by New American Library.
The confessions of Nat Turner
This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led a large slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The novel attempts to explore the reasons for the bloodthirsty revolt in which Turner and his followers killed a number of white plantation owners before being apprehended, tried and hanged.
Subjects
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction.
- Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Fiction.
- Slave insurrections -- Fiction.
- African American men -- Fiction.
- African Americans -- Fiction.
- Slaves -- Fiction.
- Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.