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Nat Turner.

Title
Nat Turner.
Author
Foner, Eric.
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1971.

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Description
viii, 184 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Reprints of contemporary sources.
Series Statement
  • Great lives observed
  • Spectrum book
Subject
  • Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
  • 1831
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Nat Turner and the Southampton Insurrection: Contemporary accounts. Trial and execution. The confessions of Nat Turner.--Americans react to the insurrection. Virginia reactions. Southern reactions. The slaves and Nat Turner. Reactions in the North. The abolitionist response. The attack on the abolitionists. Virginians demand action by the State legislature. Nat Turner and the Virginia debate on slavery. Virginia and other states strengthen their slave codes. The attack on freedom of discussion, and emergence of the proslavery argument.--Nat Turner in history: John Brown and Nat Turner. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: this extraordinary man. The Civil War and slave rebellion. A pioneer Black historian and Nat Turner. Nat Turner remembered: the 1880s. William S. Drewry on Nat Turner, 1900. 1931: the 100th anniversary of the Turner insurrection. Nat Turner remembered: the 1960s. The folk memory of Nat Turner.--Bibliography (p. 178-181)
ISBN
0139331433 0139331352 (pbk)
LCCN
^^^77153440^
OCLC
  • 172772
  • SCSB-12653834
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library