The Confessions of Nat Turner
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William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner
New York: Random House, 1967.
First printing.
Styron's remarkable re-creation of the last days of the doomed rebel Nat Turner, who led a catastrophic slave rebellion in 1831, believing that God was on his side.
Turner slaughtered his master and the owners of several neighbouring farms, before being overpowered and condemned to a death (by being flayed alive).
Styron thus vividly confronts the grim realities of slavery in nineteenth century America.
Book jacket has some fading to spine, else very good. Owner book-plate to front end-paper.
Hardcover.