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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 10 b/w illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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