In the Matter of Nat Turner : : A Speculative History / / Christopher Tomlins.
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and...
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Tomlins, Christopher, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut In the Matter of Nat Turner : A Speculative History / Christopher Tomlins. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (376 p.) : 10 b/w illus. 2 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue. What’s Past? -- Part I: Perpetually Thirsting -- Chapter 1. Confessions: Of Text and Paratext -- Chapter 2. Reading Luke in Southampton County -- Part II: A Sword in the Sunlight -- Chapter 3. The Shudder of the Thought -- Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Massacre, Retribution -- Part III: Glossolalia -- Chapter 5. On the Guilt of Fragile Sovereigns -- Chapter 6. Revulsions of Capital: Virginia, 1829–32 -- Epilogue. Demonic Ambiguities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed. In the Matter of Nat Turner penetrates the historical caricature of Turner as befuddled mystic and self-styled Baptist preacher to recover the haunting persona of this legendary American slave rebel, telling of his self-discovery and the dawning of his Christian faith, of an impossible task given to him by God, and of redemptive violence and profane retribution.Much about Turner remains unknown. His extraordinary account of his life and rebellion, given in chains as he awaited trial in jail, was written down by an opportunistic white attorney and sold as a pamphlet to cash in on Turner’s notoriety. But the enigmatic rebel leader had an immediate and broad impact on the American South, and his rebellion remains one of the most momentous episodes in American history. Christopher Tomlins provides a luminous account of Turner's intellectual development, religious cosmology, and motivations, and offers an original and incisive analysis of the Turner Rebellion itself and its impact on Virginia politics. Tomlins also undertakes a deeply critical examination of William Styron’s 1967 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which restored Turner to the American consciousness in the era of civil rights, black power, and urban riots.A speculative history that recovers Turner from the few shards of evidence we have about his life, In the Matter of Nat Turner is also a unique speculation about the meaning and uses of history itself. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh 100 Greatest African Americans. Carlo Ginzburg. Civil War history. Civil War. David F. Allmendinger Jr. Denmark Vesey. Dred. Extraordinary Black Americans. Frederick Douglass. From Colonial to Contemporary Times. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Henry Box Brown. Kyle Baker graphic novel. Molefi Kete Asante. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County. Nat Turner in Jerusalem. Nathan Alan Davis. Patrick H. Breen. Scot French. Solomon Northup. Susan Altman. The Birth of a Nation. The Cheese and the Worms. The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood. The Rebellious Slave. Thomas Ruffin Gray. Toni Morrison. Twelve Years a Slave. abolition. abolitionism. slavery. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 English 9783110704730 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2020 9783110704525 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690088 print 9780691204185 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691199870?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691199870 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691199870/original |
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