The Confessions of Nat Turner

About this book

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

  • african american men
  • african american men in fiction
  • african americans
  • african americans in fiction
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • biographical
  • children's fiction
  • collectionid:bannedbooks
  • esclaves
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical, general
  • history
  • race
  • romance norte americano
  • romans
  • sklavenaufstand
  • slave insurrections
  • slave insurrections in fiction
  • slavery
  • slavery, fiction
  • slaves
  • slaves, fiction
  • slaves in fiction
  • southampton insurrection, 1831
  • southampton insurrection, 1831 in fiction
  • turner, nat, 1800?-1831
  • turner, nat, 1800?-1831 in fiction
  • turner, nat, in fiction
  • virginia, fiction
  • virginia in fiction