August 21st, 1831, in Virginia, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion, hoping to inspire a slave uprising in the south. Several dozen whites were killed before the revolt was defeated. Turner was later capture, tried and hanged.
Soon after Turner’s execution, a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, took it upon himself to publish "The Confessions of Nat Turner," derived partly from research done while Turner was in hiding, and partly from prison conversations with Turner before trial.
Nearly 184 years later, many of us are still waiting for a definitive film based on Nat Turner’s historic revolt (and not necessarily a Nat Turner biopic) to be produced. Of…
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