Belinda Phan
The August 1831 slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia is a macabre testimonial to the evils of slavery demonstrated by both the enslaved and the oppressors. The book, Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turners Fierce Rebellion, (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), by Stephen Oates., provides a historic and accurate accounting of the madness and the method behind it.
Oates is a writer more adept at historical biographical writing than most. Having obtained a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin "He is currently a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts where he teaches courses in antebellum and the art of biography."
Oates demonstrates a passion for American history that is clear to the reader from the outset. It is admirable that Oates is able to write with such clarity about events that occurred a hundred years or more before he was born. The language used is powerful but not overly flowery, more than adequate for a collegiate student audience.
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Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion," by Stephen B. Oates. Specifically, it will analyze the historical value of the book, and analyze the author's assessment that "His [Nat Turner's] rebellion illustrates a profound truth" (Oates ix). This book is part novel, part biography, and part heartfelt narrative of a time and place that no longer exists. It is a compelling tale of what it was to be a
Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion In Stephen B. Oates's The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion, Nat Turner was the Black American slave who led the only useful, unrelenting slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, anti-abolitionist convictions that persisted in
Woman / Plantation Mistress / Fires of Jubilee The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. By Stephen B. Oates. (New York: HarperPerennial, 1990). 208 pages. Stephen B. Oates was a professor African-American and U.S. history at the University of Massachusetts for most of his academic career. His most notable works chronicle the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras of American history. He is particularly well-known for his biographies of the period
Much is made of his religious nature, and the fact is that he was raised a Methodist. Methodists were strongly in favor of abolition in most of the United States, and, though that message was watered down in the South, the fact is that the Turner was being taught the same religious doctrines that led white Methodists in the north to conclude it was not Christian to keep people
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The foods they could obtain were imported and prices of the products shot up because of the War. The government had to resort to food rationing and distributed coupons. As the War proceeded, meat, fats and milk became scarce. Soon, there were 10 rationing programs. The shortages made preparing a meal a difficult task. Homemakers had to innovate or improvise on sugar substitutes, such as molasses, maple syrup, honey,
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