The Icon Black Lives Matter Series T..., Nat Turner
The Icon Black Lives Matter Series T..., Nat Turner
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The Icon Black Lives Matter Series; The Confessions of Nat Turner

Author: Nat Turner

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players

Unabridged: 2 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2020


Synopsis

Nat Turner was an enslaved African-American preacher who led a four-day rebellion of enslaved and free black people in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831. Turner was recorded simply as "Nat" by Benjamin Turner, the man enslaving this family. When Turner died in 1810, Nat was inherited as property by Benjamin's son Samuel Turner.

Turner later led a violent rebellion of black slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Fugitive enslaved people killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831.Turner was hanged on November 11 in Jerusalem, Virginia. This is his story.

Edited by Macc Kay

Production executive Avalon Giuliano

ICON Intern Eden Giuliano

Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission

©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano

Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on June 11, 2008

Much has been made of this book, with criticism ranging from the extreme charge of racism to the milder implication that Styron, as a white man, could not capture Nat Turner's "blackness" the way a black writer could have. I don't wish to address this book within the context of these controversies.......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on April 24, 2015

By sword and ax and gun you run a swath through this county that will be long remembered. You did, as you say, come damn near to taking your army into this town. And in addition, as I think I told you before, you scared the entire South into a condition that may be described as well-nigh shitless. N......more

Goodreads review by Read By RodKelly on September 03, 2020

This was a difficult read, as any book about the atrocities of slavery will be. What further complicates the reading of this novel is the fact of its author's whiteness, as well as the (non) issue of the artistic license that Styron took in his attempt to grapple with a subject that had tormented hi......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on October 07, 2016

In 1831 Nat Turner led the largest slave uprising in American history, murdering 60 white men, women and children with a mob of slaves in Virginia. Some dude went and interviewed him in prison, and this claims to be his first-person account of his life and revolt. The motives of the dude - a white sl......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 15, 2018

I'm tempted to give this 1 star, but it does hold some historical perspectives that are worth reading. Just be aware that Styron twisted some facets of history around & subscribed unsupportable motivations to Turner, a religious fanatic & a lunatic, by his own words to Thomas Ruffin Gray. Gray was t......more