Nat Turner, Black Prophet is the fullest recounting to date of Nat's uprising, and the first that refuses to tame or ignore his divine visions. It reveals how the direct revelations from God that Nat described were central to his authority as a leader, and sets his prophecies in the context of nineteenth-century Methodism, with its revivals, camp meetings, interracial churches, and Black preachers. The rebellion and its aftermath marked a significant turning point, with Southern states further restricting the personal freedoms of the enslaved as the ongoing threat of revolt shaped the country's politics. With this work of narrative history, the late historian Anthony E. Kaye and his collaborator Gregory P. Downs have given us a new understanding of one of the nineteenth century's most decisive events.
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8 Pages of Black-and-White Images; Map / Notes, Index
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 137 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-250-39056-1 (9781250390561)
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Anthony E. Kaye (1962-2017) taught history at Pennsylvania State University and was the vice president of scholarly programs at the National Humanities Center. An influential scholar of Atlantic slavery and American history, he served as an associate editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era. His final book, Nat Turner, Black Prophet, was completed with the assistance of Gregory P. Downs.
Gregory P. Downs, is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of After Appomattox as well as other scholarly books, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He received a master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is also the author of Spit Baths, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
