The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today - Softcover
This is the first book by a legal scholar to analyze the 50 trials, including Nat Turner's, in the wake of 1831 isurrection in Southampton, Virginia, the most deadly slave uprising in U.S. history.
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Walter L. Gordon, III, is a California lawyer, with a Masters in public Administration and a PH.D. in Political Science. He has practiced,taught, and written extensively on criminal law.
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"Carefully footnoted, the compelling story of how a literate, religious field hand came to believe he was the second coming of the Messiah, destined to raise an army to kill his oppressors, makes an interesting read." --Kirkus Discoveries
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- PublisherBookSurge Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 143922983X
- ISBN 13 9781439229835
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages178
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The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today
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Walter Gordon
(2009)
ISBN 10: 143922983X
ISBN 13: 9781439229835
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