February 14, 2004
No link, because the the article is old enough to have vanished
Nat Turner in History's Multiple Mirrors
By FELICIA R. LEE (NYT) 1623 words
Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 7 , Column 1
ABSTRACT - Article on Nat Turner, who led bloodiest slave revolt in US history and was hanged on November 11, 1831, in Jerusalem, Va; Turner is subject of new PBS documentary film, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property and several new books, including The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory by historian Scot French; drawing (M)
This came to my attention because of a letter to the editor:
Nat Turner's Rebellion
To the Editor:
Re "Nat Turner in History's Multiple Mirrors" (Arts & Ideas, Feb. 7): The massacre of 55 people, "mostly women and children," is inexcusable under any circumstances, even a revolt against slavery.
Speaking of the slave Nat Turner, who led the rebellion, you write that "some white descendants of those killed maintain his actions were immoral and indefensible."
One need not be a relative of the victims to feel that way.
One DOES have to be white to feel the way the letter writer does.
Posted by P6 at February 14, 2004 09:10 AM
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