The Resource The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
Resource Information
The item The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- "The Confessions of Nat Turner reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations-and hopes-which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 428 pages
- Label
- The confessions of Nat Turner
- Title
- The confessions of Nat Turner
- Statement of responsibility
- by William Styron
- Subject
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- African Americans
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- Slave insurrections
- Slave insurrections -- Fiction
- Slaves
- 1831
- Southampton Insurrection (1831)
- Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Fiction
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction
- Virginia
- Virginia -- Fiction
- Slaves -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Confessions of Nat Turner reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations-and hopes-which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage."
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1968.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1925-2006
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Styron, William
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Turner, Nat
- Slave insurrections
- Southampton Insurrection, 1831
- African Americans
- Virginia
- Slaves
- Turner, Nat
- Southampton Insurrection (1831)
- African Americans
- Slave insurrections
- Slaves
- Virginia
- Label
- The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm00287279
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 428 pages
- Lccn
- 67012732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm00287279
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 428 pages
- Lccn
- 67012732
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- Slave insurrections
- Slave insurrections -- Fiction
- Slaves
- 1831
- Southampton Insurrection (1831)
- Southampton Insurrection, 1831 -- Fiction
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
- Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- Fiction
- Virginia
- Virginia -- Fiction
- Slaves -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Chevy Chase LibraryBorrow it5625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20015, US38.9651433 -77.07510599999999
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