Description: Preface. Chronology. Introduction: Nat Turner: Man and Symbol. Part I: Slavery - The South's "Peculiar Institution". The Memories of Frederick Douglass. The Life of the Slave Nat Turner, as told by Stephen Oates. Part II: The "Confession" of Nat Turner. Part III: Immediate Reactions to the Nat Turner Insurrection. The Southern Press. The Memories of Harriet Jacobs. William Lloyd Garrison's Indictment. Governor John Floyd before the Virginia Legislature. A New Law Concerning Slavery in Virginia. Part IV: Further Reactions: Escape and Abolitionism. The Flight of the Crafts. Frederick Douglass as the Bridge. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Eliza. Part V: Nat Turner in History. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 1861. William S. Drewry: 1900. Rayford Logan: 1931. Part VI: William Styron's Nat Turner: An Old Controversy Renewed in the 1960's. The Novel: The Confessions of Nat Turner. A White Scholar's Response. A Black Scholar's Response. Appendices. Suggested Topics for Essays and Papers.

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