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"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." ―Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
"An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." ―David W. Blight, Los Angeles Times
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the…
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This new take on radical Black abolitionist Nat Turner surprised—and enlightened me. If you’ve always thought of Turner as no more than a violent insurrectionist hellbent on the massacre of whites in southside Virginia, think again. There was much more to him, I learned in this out-of-the-box biography of the man both vilified and idolized since the infamous 1831 killing spree.
He was immortalized in the fictionized best-seller Nat Turner’s Rebellion, but this new take shows that truth can be stranger than fiction. I learned that Turner, rather than a revolutionary motivated solely by hate, drew heavily on the…
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