The confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations

and hopes

which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.