the confessions of nat turner by william styron

In the early 1820s he was sold to a neighbouring farmer of small means. He learned to read from one of his master’s sons, and he eagerly absorbed intensive religious training. His mother was an African native who transmitted a passionate hatred of slavery to her son. Turner was born the property of a prosperous small-plantation owner in a remote area of Virginia. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861–65).

Nat Turner, (born October 2, 1800, Southampton county, Virginia, U.S.-died November 11, 1831, Jerusalem, Virginia), Black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. His revolt hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves. Nat Turner destroyed the white Southern myth that slaves were actually happy with their lives or too docile to undertake a violent rebellion.

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