Nat Turner

This article from 1998, written by Yvonne French, examines the comments made by William Styron at a public event about his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. He addressed the discourse regarding his book, as the book received both praise and criticism following its release.

American Heritage recently asked a wide range of novelists, journalists, and historians to answer a question: what is your favorite American historical novel, and why? The results made two things clear: that the question was not nearly so simple as it sounded; and that it had been well worth asking…

This excerpt originates from The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, which is a firsthand account of Turner's actions following the rebellion. The account was published by a local lawyer, Thomas R. Gray, who Turner dictated his confession to…

Created by former Director of Educational Services for Fourscore, Kimberly Hase Galek, this timeline presents the history of the abolitionist movement and slavery in the United States from 1775-1865.

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies, Temple University, and author of The African American People.

Timothy Thomas Fortune wrote this poem, titled "Nat Turner" for the Cleveland Gazette on November 22nd, 1884. Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, and writer who was the editor for the influential black newspaper The New York Age. In his poem, Fortune defended Nat Turner's…

On January 1, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison founded The Liberator, a militant abolitionist newspaper that was one of the country's first publications to demand an immediate end to slavery. On the front page of the first issue, he defiantly declared: "I will not equivocate--I will not…

Transcript: The scenes which the above Plate are designed to represent are:

Fig. 1. a Mother intreating for the lives of her childres.

2. Mr. Travis, cruelly murdered by his own Slaves.

3. Mr. Barrow who bravely defended himself while his wife escaped

<p><span class="deck"> Sure that he was divinely appointed, Nat Turner led fellow slaves in a bloody attempt to overthrow their masters</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">On the 25th anniversary of the most controversial historical novel in memory, the author of <em><span class="typestyle"> The Confessions of Nat Turner</span> </em>speaks of a novelist’s duty to history and fiction’s strange power not only to astonish, but to enrage.</span></p>