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Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
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Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor brings a powerful, revelatory account of the events that led to the Nat Turner slave rebellion and the aftershocks that shaped society from the civil war to today.
The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.
Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive to reveal the routines of daily life and the fraught family dynamics on a slave plantation in ...
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