05 August 2016

The Literary Battle for Nat Turner’s Legacy



In 1967, when William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was published, it briefly looked as if a white southern liberal might have found an ideal story to tell a country torn by racial strife. Styron’s subject was a little-known historical event: America’s bloodiest slave revolt.

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