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• Title: William B. Crawley: Great Lives.

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nat Turner

  a Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

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  This highly readable book contains essays from Greenberg and 12 other prominent scholars on various aspects of Turner’s Rebellion.

• The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.

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  Electronic copy of the narrative as told to Southampton lawyer, Thomas R. Gray.

• The Fires of Jubilee

  Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

  Oates, Stephen B.

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  A highly readable account of Turner’s Rebellion.

• The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood

  a New History of the Nat Turner Revolt

  Breen, Patrick H.

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  Breen presents an in-depth exploration of Nat Turner’s revolt.

• Nat Turner

  Baker, Kyle

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  A biography of Turner told in graphic novel format.

• Nat Turner and the Slave Revolt

  Barrett, Tracy, 1955-

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  A short biography of Turner for children.

• “On This Day in 1831, A Bloody Uprising in the Virginia Countryside”

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  Reprint of an article that originally appeared in The Atlantic in August 1861.

• The Rebellious Slave

  Nat Turner in American Memory

  French, Scot

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  French discusses Turner’s Rebellion and its place in history.