Download The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory PDF EPUB
Author: Scot French
Pages: 384
Size: 1.673,39 Kb
Publication Date: January 1,2019
Category: Slavery & Emancipation
In this detailed research spanning the eras of slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights, Scot French areas the contested history and enduring memory space of Nat Turner’s Rebellion within the broader context of the black freedom struggle. Whereas many historians acknowledge “The Confessions” as gospel, French presents many compelling counternarratives that time to a wider conspiracy. A groundbreaking function of American background, analogous to Merrill D. Gray, and much less authoritative resources, such as for example rumor and oral custom. French builds his narrative around close readings of traditional texts, both popular and obscure, from early American prophecies of slave rebellion to William Styron’s 1967 Pulitzer Prize-earning novel about Turner. He devotes considerable focus on the interplay between quasi-established narratives, such as for example “The Confessions of Nat Turner” by Thomas R. Peterson’s Lincoln in American Storage and Nell Painter’s Sojourner Truth: A Life, symbolic, The Rebellious Slave will alter our sights of both slavery and its own complex, everchanging legacy.