Woodson Carter, The Negro in Our History, 1922

Sylviane Diouf offers resources for learning more about Nat Turner and the Southampton Rebellion:

“The leader of the most famous slave uprising in the history of the United States has been the subject of newspapers and scholarly articles, books, plays, a documentary, and a feature film, but his personality and his ultimate intentions are still enigmatic and subject to often contradictory interpretations-and passions. An appalling fictional first-person narrative about his life, for instance, ignited a ferocious controversy during the Black Power years.

To find out more about the man and his legacy, here are a few leads…”

Read it all: http://www.lapiduscenter.org/in-search-of-nat-turner/