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    The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

    By Stephen B. Oates

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    “A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York Times

    The definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the aftermath that brought America one step closer to civil war—newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document "The Confessions of Nat Turner"

    The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master, and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War. Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, gifted, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left. 

    A classic, here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America's history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061970009
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    Stephen B. Oates

    Stephen B. Oates (1936-2021) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.

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      A very good, very well-written history. Dr. Oates writes in plain language with professional detachment when describing the details of this event. He summarizes the details of Nat Turner's life in a way that really makes you wonder what was going on in this rebel's mind.