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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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The Interview and The Author John H. Heylin May 8, 2007 FIG # 24 Throughout history people have published articles and books in order to sway the public to their side. Rulers such as Stalin and Mao used propaganda to keep themselves in power; people such as Thomas Paine used articles in order to start revolution. Thomas R. Gray, author of The Confessions of Nat Turner, had that power when he interviewed Turner. Although The Confessions of Nat Turner is supposedly the words of Turner himself, we have no way to confirm that Gray did not show the information in order to gain greater benefit from it. It is known that the interviewer, Thomas R. Gray, was struggling financially. It is possible that he embellished the story in order to make the reading more dramatic; or it is also possible that Gray harbored feelings against Turner because of racial hatred of the time or because...
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