{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780691199870-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691199870-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121314175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INDEX","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126750067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confessions:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":" 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141223825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115788708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revulsions of Capital:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131844569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Work of Death:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"2021 37","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120930269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confessions: Of Text and Paratext","authors":"C. Tomlins","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes the pamphlet, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), written by a white attorney named Thomas Ruffin Gray. The pamphlet “immediately became the standard account” of the event that became known as the Turner Rebellion. The event has spawned many commentaries, both historical and literary. Without exception all grant considerable prominence to Gray's pamphlet. But like all documents generated in the course of master-class investigations of slave revolts, alleged or actual, The Confessions raises obvious evidentiary quandaries: credibility, reliability, authenticity. The chapter considers precisely what kind of historical source this document entails, how it should be interrogated, and what it can tell us. In doing so, this chapter investigates the pamphlet's paratextual aspects.","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115693741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Luke in Southampton County","authors":"C. Tomlins","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp7d55d.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines Turner's affinity for biblical scripture. It first surveys Turner's account of himself and of what inspired him, with particular attention to his account's pattern of scriptural citation, in order to substantiate the claim that Turner indeed blended invocation of Revelation with a fondness for Luke. The chapter argues that, in fact, Turner based much of his understanding of himself and of the significance of his actions on Luke's account of the life and ministry of Christ. It also examines other possible influences on Turner's narrative of what inspired him. The chapter concludes by indicating how this examination of Turner's biblical exegesis might influence our perception of his narrative of the events leading up to August 1831.","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114550737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Work of Death: Massacre, Retribution","authors":"C. Tomlins","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the logic behind Turner's “work of death,” to describe the action that he initiated. The phrase was, if not commonplace, not uncommon. It meant killing, and its associated experiences. But what kind of killing? The chapter asserts that the killings that are indelibly associated with Turner's name were not a “spree.” The killings were not indiscriminate, but purposeful. They followed a logic. The chapter thus attempts to pinpoint the logic behind the killings. There are a multitude of possibilities here. The killings could be instrumental or revenge-driven, or it could be incidental to some overriding purpose, or if it was in itself a central and essential redemptive act. Furthermore, the chapter considers what it might mean, particularly for a slave, to describe dealing death as “work.”","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125251353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revulsions of Capital: Virginia, 1829–32","authors":"C. Tomlins","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691198668.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that Virginia was not the “calm and peaceful” world prior to Turner's Rebellion as Gray claimed. Turner's rebellion, in fact, took place amidst regional black restlessness at the prospect of seemingly endless enslavement, and regional white discord over the relationship between land, labor, and political representation. In the rebellion's aftermath, that white discord became a more profound rupture in the politics of slavery itself, driving a bitterly divided House of Delegates to entertain the possibility of gradual emancipation. From that rupture there emerged a new political and economic equilibrium, centered not on propertied hierarchy but on property's commoditization, notably, commodified labor.","PeriodicalId":314278,"journal":{"name":"In the Matter of Nat Turner","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117295875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}