Episode 595: The Confessions of Nat Turner
American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)
English - September 06, 2023 13:42 - 22 minutes - 23.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While this is not quite a slave narrative, "The Confessions of Nat Turner" is testimony of one of the most famous American slaves (although the case can be made that he had already freed himself). While most slave narratives were weaponized in the anti-slavery struggle, this document was weaponized to justify strengthening the institution of slavery in the Antebellum South.