Nat Turner : a troublesome property

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Label

Nat Turner : a troublesome property

Title remainder

a troublesome property

Statement of responsibility

producers, Frank Christopher, Kenneth S. Greenberg ; director, Charles Burnett ; writers, Charles Burnett, Frank Christopher, Kenneth S. Greenberg

Contributor

• California Newsreel (Firm)
• KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
• Subpix
• Burnett, Charles, 1944-
• Christopher, Frank
• Dye, Billy
• Greenberg, Kenneth S
• Hicks, Tommy
• LeMelle, Michael A
• Lumbly, Carl
• Opher, James
• Waller, Patrick
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-

Subject

• African Americans in literature
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• DVD
• Documentary films
• Literature and history -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
• Slave insurrections -- Virginia -- Historiography
• Slavery in literature
• Southampton Insurrection, 1831
• Styron, William, 1925-2006
• Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831 -- In literature

Language

eng

Summary

Evaluates the authenticity of the earliest source, "The Confessions of Nat Turner", assembled by a white Virginia lawyer from jailhouse interviews in 1831. It then follows the controversy over the Nat Turner story played out through history. Alvin Poussaint and Ossie Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the Black community. Religious scholar Vincent Harding and legal scholar Martha Minow reflect on America's attitudes toward terrorism. One of the most bitter race battles of the 1960s is reexamined, when William Styron published his 1967 novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner

Cataloging source

EXA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Historian, Kenneth S. Greenberg ; editors, Frank Christopher, Michael Colin

PerformerNote

• Narrator, Alfre Woodard ; commentators, Eric Foner, Peter Wood, Mary Kemp Davis, Ekewueme Michael Thelwell, Henry Louis Gates, Vincent Harding, Herbert Aptheker, William Styron, Kitty Futrell, Eugene Genovese, Rick Francis, Bruce Turner, Martha Minow, Ray Winbush, Ossie Davis, Alvin Poussaint, Ayoku Babu, James McGee, Charles Burnett, Kenneth S. Greenberg, Thomas Parramore, Louise Meriwether, Loyle Hairston
• Carl Lumbly (Nat Turner--Gray), Tommy Hicks (Nat Turner--Edmonds), James Opher (Nat Turner--Styron), Michael Lemelle (Nat Turner--Brown), Patrick Waller (Nat Turner--Stowe), Billy Dye (Nat Turner), Tom Nowicki (Thomas R. Gray), Megan Gallagher (Margaret Whitehead), Moses Gibson (Allen Crawford)

Runtime

60

Technique

live action