The R&B group recorded in Philadelphia in the early '70s, but their debut is only just being released. The album is all over the map, but its... Decades Later, Nat Turner Rebellion Makes Its Debut ...

Name, face, body / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- The construction of The confessions of Nat Turner / David F. Almendinger, Jr. -- The event / Herbert Aptheker -- Covenant in Jerusalem / Thomas C. Parramore ...

Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1800, Nat Turner claimed he was chosen by God to free the slaves from bondage.

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Thanks to Nate Parker’s controversial (and apparently struggling) film The Birth of a Nation, the story of Nat Turner has once again piqued America’s popular imagination. Suggested Reading Taraji P.