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Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment : Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection Southern Literary Studies
author
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Davis, Mary Kemp.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807122491
print isbn13
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9780807122495
ebook isbn13
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9780585299990
language
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English
subject
Southampton Insurrection, 1831--Literature and the insurrection, Literature and history--Virginia--History--19th century, Slave insurrections--Virginia--Historiography, American fiction--19th century--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century-
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PS374.S725D38 1999eb
ddc
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810/.9/358
subject
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Southampton Insurrection, 1831--Literature and the insurrection, Literature and history--Virginia--History--19th century, Slave insurrections--Virginia--Historiography, American fiction--19th century--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century-
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Southern Literary Studies
Fred Hobson, Editor
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Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment
Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
Mary Kemp Davis
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Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing
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Designer: Melanie O'Quinn Samaha
Typeface: Granjon
Typesetter: Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Printer and binder: Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Chapter 8 first appeared, in somewhat different form, as "Nat Turner as an Archetypal Hero," Southern Literary Journal, XXVIII (Fall, 1995), 6784.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davis, Mary Kemp, 1948 Nat Turner before the bar of judgment: fictional treatments of the Southampton slave insurrection/Mary Kemp Davis. p. cm.(Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-2249-1 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Southampton Insurrection, 1831Literature and the insurrection. 2. Literature and historyVirginiaHistory19th century. 3. SlaveryVirginiaInsurrections, etc.Historiography. 4. American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticism. 5. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 6. Historical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism. 7. Turner, Nat, 1800?1831In literature. 8. Afro-Americans in literature. 9. Slavery in literature. 10. Slaves in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.S725D38 1999 81'.009'358dc21 98-24707 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Page vii
For Lee, Louis, and Lowell
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Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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CONTENTS
Preface
xiii
Introduction: His Truth Is Marching On
1
Part I Seizing the Word Early Texts of the Nat Turner Revolt
1 The Politics of Repression: Governor John Floyd's Official Address
15
2 Let the Rope Talk: The Case of the Mute Defendants
42
Part II Rendering a Verdict Four Nineteenth-Century Novels
3 The Kidnapped Witnesses: G.P.R. James's The Old Dominion
79
4 The Grand and Solemn Voice Hushed: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
110
5 The Accusing Eyes of History: Mary Spear Tiernan's Homoselle
142
6 Transgressing the Codes: Pauline Carrington Rust Bouv's Their Shadows Before
169
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Part III Restless Peace Two Twentieth-Century Novels
7 The Crime of Innocence: Daniel Panger's Ol' Prophet Nat
201
8 The Hour of His Judgment: William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner
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