{"product_id":"the-confessions-of-nat-turner-isbn-9780679736639","title":"The Confessions of Nat Turner","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story that inspired the major motion picture \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2016)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took  place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated  slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the  region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/b\u003e is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in  jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges  over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that  bloody day in August.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Confessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/b\u003e is not only a masterpiece  of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence  of Negro slavery.  Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic  event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused  this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and  strike down those who held his people in bondage.William Styron (1925-2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include \u003ci\u003eLie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Tidewater Morning\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.25th-Anniversary Edition With a New Afterword by the Author","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303129272549,"sku":"NP9780679736639","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679736639.jpg?v=1767738815","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-confessions-of-nat-turner-isbn-9780679736639","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}