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A 5 page paper on this illuminating nonfiction analysis of the most famous slave rebellion of the antebellum era. The paper analyzes the way Oates brings the character of this brilliant, articulate, but tormented man to life. Bibliography lists two sources.
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same time, it is hard to understand how the country could become so bitterly, and so persistently, divided along racial lines. It becomes easier to comprehend when these invents are
reinterpreted for us by modern scholarship. This is what Stephen Oates has done in his The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turners Fierce Rebellion. Nat Turner was a slave from
southeastern Virginia who claimed to see visions -- first of a fiery conflict between "white spirits and black spirits," and then of the receipt of his messianic task: he was
to lead the "fight against the Serpent" by inciting black slaves to war (Turner, nat.html). Tremendously charismatic, he managed to convince six other blacks to follow his lead. They killed
Turners master and his family, vowing to allow no white survivors to warn others of their approach. They then headed toward the county seat (significantly named Jerusalem), where he intended
to continue his sweep of death. He picked up 70 more blacks on his way, and this was enough to kill some 60 whites unfortunate enough to be located along
his path. However, despite his resolution to leave no witnesses, the white folk of the surrounding area got wind of Turners plan, and mobilized quickly to defend their homes
and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities, Turner was captured and quickly sentenced to death. In prison,
however, he dictated his "confessions" to white lawyer Thomas Gray (who found them horrifying, but oddly compelling -- the same emotion that strikes us today). Gray compiled Turners dictation with
annotations and remarks of his own, much in the spirit of the many "tell-all" books on the newsstands today; after Turners death, the country was galvanized by the events, and
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