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Kaye Anthony E - Nat Turner Black Prophet A Visionary History - Hardcover
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Description: " An extraordinary collaboration A profound achievement Downs is a superb even lyrical writer." David W. Blight Los Angeles Times A Chicago Tribune book of the summer | A Goodreads most anticipated summer book A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion and the new definitive account. In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County Virginia rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed well over a hundred people Black and white lay dead or were hanged. As news of the revolt spread it became apparent that it was the idea of a single man: Nat Turner. An enslaved preacher he was as enigmatic as he was brilliant. He was also something more a prophet one who claimed to have received visions from the Spirit urging him to act. Nat Turner Black Prophet is the fullest recounting to date of Turner's uprising and the first that refuses to tame or overlook his divine visions. Instead it takes those visions seriously tracing their emergence from the world of nineteenth - century Methodism with its revivals camp meetings interracial churches and Black preachers. The rebellion and its aftermath would hasten the end of this world as Southern states further restricted the personal freedoms of the enslaved even as the ongoing threat of revolt shaped the country's politics. With this work of narrative history the late historian Anthony E. Kaye and his collaborator Gregory P. Downs have given us a new understanding of one of the nineteenth century's most decisive events.
Title: Nat Turner Black Prophet A Visionary History
Author(s): Kaye Anthony E
Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780809024377
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies
Description: " An extraordinary collaboration A profound achievement Downs is a superb even lyrical writer." David W. Blight Los Angeles Times A Chicago Tribune book of the summer | A Goodreads most anticipated summer book A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion and the new definitive account. In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County Virginia rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed well over a hundred people Black and white lay dead or were hanged. As news of the revolt spread it became apparent that it was the idea of a single man: Nat Turner. An enslaved preacher he was as enigmatic as he was brilliant. He was also something more a prophet one who claimed to have received visions from the Spirit urging him to act. Nat Turner Black Prophet is the fullest recounting to date of Turner's uprising and the first that refuses to tame or overlook his divine visions. Instead it takes those visions seriously tracing their emergence from the world of nineteenth - century Methodism with its revivals camp meetings interracial churches and Black preachers. The rebellion and its aftermath would hasten the end of this world as Southern states further restricted the personal freedoms of the enslaved even as the ongoing threat of revolt shaped the country's politics. With this work of narrative history the late historian Anthony E. Kaye and his collaborator Gregory P. Downs have given us a new understanding of one of the nineteenth century's most decisive events.
Title: Nat Turner Black Prophet A Visionary History
Author(s): Kaye Anthony E
Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780809024377
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies
