The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, gifted, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left.

A classic now newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America’s history.

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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, gifted, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left.

A classic now newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America’s history.

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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

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The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, gifted, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left.

A classic now newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America’s history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798200791965
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 06/22/2021
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stephen B. Oates is the author of sixteen books, including The Approaching Fury; With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, and Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. He has won the Christopher Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award for his work. Oates was a consultant and commentator in Ken Burns’s Civil War series on PBS, and is a recipient of the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.


Ryan Vincent Anderson is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Perennial Library Edition ix

Prologue: Southampton County, 1831 1

Part 1 This Infernal Spirit of Slavery 5

Part 2 Go Sound the Jubilee 33

Part 3 Judgment Day 59

Part 4 Legacy 127

Epilogue: Southampton County, 1973 147

Reference Notes 155

Index 181

Maps

Southeastern Virginia, 1831 72

Nat Turner Country 73

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