Author: Greenberg, Kenneth S.; editor:
Title: Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Description: Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xix,289 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Search for Nat Turner: Name, Face, Body; The Construction of The Confessions of Nat Turner; Stories of the Rebellion: The Event; Covenant in Jerusalem; Communities & Contexts: Symptoms of Liberty and Blackhead Signposts: David Walker and Nat Turner; A Prophet in His Own Land: Support for Nat Turner and His Rebellion within Southampton's Black Community; Reading, Revelation, and Rebellion: The Textual Communities of Gabriel, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner; Nat Turner in a Hemispheric Context; Nat Turner and Sectional Crisis; "What Happened in This Place?": In Search of the Female Slave in the Nat Turner Slave Insurrection; Memory:Styron's Choice: A Meditation on History, Literature, and Moral Imperatives; Interview with William Styron; Interview with Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.; Epilogue: Nat Turner in Hollywood ["Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women & children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. And yet we do not know what he looked like, where he is buried, or even whether Nat Turner was his real name. In Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, Kenneth S. Greenberg gathers twelve distinguished scholars to offer provocative new insight into the man, his rebellion, & his time, & his place in history.." -Publisher's description]

Keywords: Southampton Insurrection, Nat Turner, American Slavery, African American, Slave Rebellions, Slaves Rebellion, United States, Historiography, History