![]() ![]() All cast & crew Production, box office & more at IMDbPro. "Baker's suspenseful and violent work documents the slave trade's atrocities as no textbook can, with an emotional power approaching that of Maus. The documentary will give insight into Nat Turners life, his role in the revolt and his. "Baker's drawings are worthy of a critic's attention." - Los Angeles Times "Intricately expressive faces and trenchant dramatic pacing evoke the diabolic slave trade's real horrors." - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() "Baker's storytelling is magnificent." - Variety "A hauntingly beautiful historical spotlight. The book also includes a new afterword by Baker. This graphic novel collects all four issues of Kyle Baker's critically acclaimed miniseries together for the first time in hardcover and paperback. Told nearly wordlessly, every image resonates with the reader as the brutal story unfolds.įind teaching guides for Nat Turner and other titles at /resources. In Nat Turner, acclaimed author and illustrator Kyle Baker depicts the evils of slavery in this moving and historically accurate story of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement to others he is monster - a murderer whose name is never uttered. "After this revelation in the year 1825, and the knowledge of the elements being made known to me, I sought more than ever to obtain true holiness before the great day of judgment should appear, and then I began to receive the true knowledge of faith.The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion - which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia - is known among school children and adults. "And about this time I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.' I now withdrew myself as much as my situation would permit, from the intercourse of my fellow servants, for the avowed purpose of serving the Spirit more fully-and it appeared to me, and reminded me of the things it had already shown me, and that it would then reveal to me the knowledge of the elements, the revolution of the planets, the operation of tides, and changes of the seasons. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of. ![]() "But the reason of my return was, that the Spirit appeared to me and said I had my wishes directed to the things of this world, and not to the kingdom of Heaven, and that I should return to the service of my earthly master - "For he who knoweth his Master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and thus, have I chastened you." And the negroes found fault, and murmured against me, saying that if they had my sense they would not serve any master in the world. Nathanial Nat Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. "About this time I was placed under an overseer, from whom I ran away -and after remaining in the woods thirty days, I returned, to the astonishment of the negroes on the plantation, who thought I had made my escape to some other part of the country, as my father had done before. ![]()
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