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The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831, but does not always depict the events accurately. It is based on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas

The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as FUll.y and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray is a pamphlet published shortly after the trial and execution of Nat Turner in November 1831. The previous August, Turner, a slave preacher and self-styled prophet, had led the only successful slave revolt in Virginia's history, leaving fifty-five white people in Southampton County, Virginia, dead, the slaveholding South convulsed with panic

The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron was an enlighening but disturbing fictional account of the black insurrection and slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, as planned and led by Reverend Nat Turner. This book, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1967, shed a lot of light on the dark corners of slavery. As William Styron notes in the Afterword, Nat Turner entered his consciousness at a young age as he stresses that he could not remember a time that he wasn't haunted by slavery

Led by Nat Turner, a thirty year old slave, the rebellion took place in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning on Sunday evening, August 21, 1831. Nat and his small group of rebel slaves first murdered Turner's master and his family members, than preceded to neighboring farms and plantations killing occupants and gathering firearms, other weapons, and additional slave followers. The rebels killed an estimated 55 people, at least 51 of who were white, before the rebellion was suppressed less