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An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer. David W. Blight, Los Angeles Times
A Chicago Tribune book of the summer A Goodreads most anticipated summer book
A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner''s rebellionand the new definitive account.
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived and attempted to march on the county seat of Jerusalem, from which they planned to launch an uprising across the South. After the rebellion was suppressed, well over a hundred people, Black and white, lay dead or were hanged. As news of the revolt spread, it became apparent that it was the idea of a single man: Nat Turner. An enslaved preacher, he was as enigmatic as he was brilliant. He was also something morea prophet, one who claimed
