The construction of the confessions of Nat Turne

Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 24-42

  Allmendinger, David F ^a  

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Authoritative; Manuscript; Permission; Richmond; Statement

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EID: 85200920291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195177565.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. John Timothee Trezevant, The Trezevant Family in the United States (Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1914), 24.
2. John Timothee Trezevant, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1996 (Alexandria, Va.: CQ Staff Directories, 1997), 1961.
3. Thomas Parramore, Southampton County, Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978), 51.
4. Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat Turner (Baltimore:Lucas & Deaver, 1831), 15-16.
5. Stephen B. Oates suggests that William C. Parker may have been the author; see The Fires ofJubilee: Nat Turner's FierceRebellion (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), 102.
6. Tragle, "Styron and His Sources," Massachusetts Review 11 (1970): 144-47.
7. Kenneth S. Greenberg makes a similar suggestion in The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996), 9-10.
8. Daniel S. Fabricant, "Thomas R. Gray and William Styron: Finally, A Critical Look at the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner," American Journal of Legal History 37 (1993): 345.
9. Thomas C. Parramore, Southampton County, Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978), 112.
10. Seymour L. Gross and Eileen Bender, "History, Politics and Literature: The Myth of Nat Turner," American Quarterly 23 (1971): 487-518.
11. Mary Kemp Davis, Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), 63-76.
12. Tony Horwitz, "Untrue Confessions," New Yorker, 13 December 1999.
13. Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 239-46.
14. Philip J. Schwarz, Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 53-54.