Preliminaries; Copyright; Contents; eForeword; Part I Judgment Day; Part II Old Times Past: Voices, Dreams, Recollections; Part III Study War; Part IV "It is Done ..."
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Few modern American novelists have dared as much as William Styron in writing The Confessions of Nat Turner. A white man and a Tidewater Virginian by birth, Styron put himself inside the life and mind of Nat Turner, the black man who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. It is a true story told as a novel, though the author prefers to call it 'a meditation on history' rather than a historical novel. Many black critics scorned it when it was published, refusing to accept Styron ́s bold conceit, though the novel won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and was one of the most acclaimed Amer.