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Signs in the Heavens

Walter Johnson: Nat Turner’s Revolt, 22 October 2026

Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History 
by Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs.
Picador, 368 pp., £17.99, August 2025, 978 1 250 39056 1Show More
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“... repeating the story – a story – of how Turner died was all there was to say about the revolt.Anthony Kaye and Gregory Downs, like many historians before them, begin their version with The Confessions of Nat Turner, published by the Southampton County lawyer and enslaver Thomas Gray. Gray had been one of the ...”

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