The Confessions of Nat Turner: with Related Documents / Edition 2

by Kenneth Greenberg

Overview

Delve into Nat Turnere role in American history as Confessions of Nat Turner walks you through not only his impact on slavery in this country, but what contributed to the slaves themselves successfully rebelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319064860
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Series:	Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kenneth S. Greenberg is Distinguished Professor of History at Suffolk University. He is the author of Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery and Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting and Gambling in the Old South. He is co-writer and co-producer of the film Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, nationally broadcast on PBS. He has also been awarded fellowships by the Charles Warren Center at Harvard, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and Harvard Law School.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

PART ONE:
Introduction: The Confessions of Nat Turner: Text and Context
Nat Turner: The Man and the Rebellion
The Setting
The Text
Slave Rebellions and Resistance
The Aftermath of the Rebellion
The Virginia Debate over Emancipation
Retelling the Story

PART TWO: The Confessions of Nat Turner

PART THREE: Related Documents
1. The Richmond Compiler, August 24, 1831
2. The Constitutional Whig, August 29, 1831
3. The Richmond Enquirer, August 30, 1831
4. The Liberator, September 3, 1831
5. The Constitutional Whig, September 3, 1831
6. The Richmond Enquirer, September 20, 1831
7. The Constitutional Whig, September 26, 1831
8. The Norfolk Herald, November 4, 1831
9. The Norfolk Herald, November 14, 1831
10. Excerpts from the Court Records of Southampton County, 1831
11. Nat Turners Trial Record, Excerpt from the Court Records of Southampton County, 1831
12. Excerpts from the Diary of Virginia Governor John Floyd, 1831-1832
13. Letter from Virginia Governor John Floyd to South Carolina Governor James Hamilton, Jr., November 19, 1831
14. Thomas R. Dew, Abolition of Negro Slavery, September and December, 1832
15. David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1830

APPENDIXES
A Nat Turner Chronology (1800-1832)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index