How Long to Read Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County

How Long Does it Take to Read Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County by David F. Allmendinger Jr.

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A masterful study of one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in the history of the Old South. In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources, David F. Allmendinger Jr. reconstructs the lives of key individuals who were drawn into the uprising and shows how the history of certain white families and their slaves—reaching back into the eighteenth century—shaped the course of the rebellion. Never before has anyone so patiently examined the extensive private and public sources relating to Southampton as does Allmendinger in this remarkable work. He argues that the plan of rebellion originated in the mind of a single individual, Nat Turner, who concluded between 1822 and 1826 that his own masters intended to continue holding slaves into the next generation. Turner specifically chose to attack households to which he and his followers had connections. The book also offers a close analysis of his Confessions and the influence of Thomas R. Gray, who wrote down the original text in November 1831. The author draws new conclusions about Turner and Gray, their different motives, the authenticity of the confession, and the introduction of terror as a tactic, both in the rebellion and in its most revealing document. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history.

How long is Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County?

Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County by David F. Allmendinger Jr. is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.

This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County aloud.

What Reading Level is Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County?

Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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