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THE CHARACTER OF NAT TURNER DEFENDED

WILLIAM 
STYRON'S
NAT
TURNER

TEN BLACK WRITERS
RESPOND

LERONE BENNETT, JR.
ALVIN G. POUSSAINT
VINCENT HARDING
JOHN OLIVER KILLENS
JOHN A. WILLIAMS
ERNEST KAISER
LOYLE HARRISON
CHARLES V. HAMILTON
MIKE THELWELL
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE, editor

As The Confessions of Nat Turner moved into the market place and onto the bestseller lists, it became clear to some black readers that something was wrong. Why had no black novelist or black historian been persuaded to review this book in the national press? Why was Styron's novel such a success? Why was it given a Pulitzer Prize by Columbia University? These questions are answered in this angry book of ten essays by novelists, historians and friends of the black community. The full text of the original Confessions of Nat Turner is included. Edited by John Henrik Clarke, Associate Editor of Freedomways.

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