- Race, African American men in fiction, Virginia in fiction, African Americans in fiction
This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led a large slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The novel attempts to explore the reasons for the bloodthirsty revolt in which Turner and his followers killed a number of white plantation owners before being apprehended, tried and hanged.
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- Author
- William Styron
- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 413
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, New American Library of Canada, Random House
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780553269161
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