on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published...
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who published The Confessions of Nat Turner in November 1831. In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Nat Turner on his list of 100 Greatest African...
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in...
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Thomas R. Gray (category Nat Turner)
wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner. Thomas Ruffin Gray was born in Southampton County, Virginia in the early 1800s. He was the youngest of six children...
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William Styron (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
the 1967 publication of The Confessions of Nat Turner. Baldwin's prediction was correct, and despite public defenses of Styron by leading artists of the...
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was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel...
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by Hernan Diaz. The novel was published by Riverhead Books. Set predominantly in New York City and focusing on the world of finance, the novel is a metafictional...
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Goodbye Uncle Tom (category Documentary films about slavery in the United States)
others. The film ends with an unidentified man’s fantasy re-enactment of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. This man imagines Nat Turner's revolt...
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documentary interweaves Thomas R. Gray's 1831 The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron's 1966 novel of the same name, and additional source material...
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Patsey (category American people of Guinean descent)
Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film, Solomon Northup's...
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Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of their...
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O'Connor The Arrangement by Elia Kazan The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron The Chosen by Chaim Potok (N.B. The source shows the Styron and...
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novel The Confessions of Nat Turner. Woodard addresses Black intellectual critiques of the book and James Baldwin's defense of it. He links the heteronormativity...
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at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting The Goldfinch. The novel...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished...
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Uncle Tom (category Culture of the United States)
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking...
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who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and...
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Olive Kitteridge (section "The Piano Player")
cycle by American author Elizabeth Strout. Set in Maine in the fictional coastal town of Crosby, it comprises 13 stories that are interrelated but narratively...
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Parker's The Birth of a Nation", by Richard Brody, and "The Birth of a Nation Isn't Worth Defending", by Vinson Cunningham. The Confessions of Nat Turner, a...
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novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose...
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Solomon Northup (category Writers of slave narratives)
Willie; Turner, Nat; Truth, Sojourner; Jacobs, Harriet; Prince, Mary; Craft, William; Craft, Ellen (2017). Slavery: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former...
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it examines the issues regarding the ownership of Black slaves by both White and Black Americans. The book was published to acclaim, which praised its...
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Future Home of the Living God. The novel was inspired by the life of Erdrich's grandfather who motivated and inspired other members of the Turtle Mountain...
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Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
Review named it one of the top books of 2017, and Literary Hub named it one of "The 20 Best Novels of the Decade." The book has received the following accolades:...
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Vesey and Nat Turner, two real leaders of slave insurrections. Stowe included a copy of Nat Turner's famous confessions as an appendix to the novel. One...
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the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground...
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12 Years a Slave (film) (redirect from 12 Years a Slave: The Extraordinary True Story of Solomon Northup)
Epps' crops, so he leases his slaves to neighbor Judge Turner's plantation for the season. Turner favors Northup and allows him to play fiddle at a celebration...
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Roots (1977 miniseries) (category The Interviews title ID same as Wikidata)
as a result of Nat Turner's Rebellion. Although none of Moore's slaves are personally involved in the rebellion, they become victims of the paranoid suspicions...
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Omar ibn Said (category 19th-century Muslim scholars of Islam)
enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. Remaining enslaved for the remainder of his life, he wrote a series of Arabic-language works on history...
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John Punch (slave) (category Year of birth unknown)
John Punch (c. 1605 - c. 1650) was a Central African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first enslaved person. Thought to have been an indentured...
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