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Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

by Greenberg (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 312
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 04 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0195177568
ISBN 13: 9780195177565

Media Reviews
[A] dedicated effort by historians to unearth the rich particulars from which historical memory is created. * Richmond Times-Dispatch *
Offer[s] new insight into the man, his rebellion and his time. * Publishers Weekly *
An eclectic collection of perspectives about Nat Turner and his rebellion. * Times Literary Supplement *
An illuminating stew of antebellum Southern history, ethnic relations, and contemporary social literature. * Kirkus Reviews *
Informed by much new work on the context of slave life and rebellion, an understanding of African American folk and literary texts, and improved methods of psychobiography. No single vision of Nat Turner or meaning for his rebellion emerges, but all the essays repay several readings and remind us how central understanding of him is to any hope of getting hold of slavery's place in the American mind and conscience. * Library Journal *
With the prospects of terror so much on our minds, the publication of this fascinating collection is especially appropriate. Kenneth Greenberg's engrossing introduction and the essays that follow explore from nearly every interpretive angle the dramatic events of Southampton County, Virginia (1831). The authors illustrate how a deep, incandescent loathing of slavery and desire for freedom led the visionary Turner and his slave band to slaughter white civilians, young and old, an effort that prompted equally terroristic vengeance by an outraged, frightened slaveholding population. Moral ambiguities abound, and the reader is compelled to ponder the tragedy of American race relations in a most profound way. * Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida *
Nat Turner is no longer merely villain or hero in American memory. This splendid collection of scholarly essays and remembrances offers the most thorough understanding we have yet had of this pivotal slave rebel. We can see Turner here from multiple perspectives: historical, moral, psychological, literary, and especially the politics of memory and race. * David W. Blight, Yale University *
Author Bio
Kenneth Greenberg is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the History Department at Suffolk University. His books include 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 the editor of The Confessions of Nat Turner.