The Fires of Jubilee, Stephen B. Oates
The Fires of Jubilee, Stephen B. Oates
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The Fires of Jubilee
Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

Author: Stephen B. Oates

Narrator: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

“A penetrating reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America’s history.” —New York TimesThe definitive account of the most infamous slave rebellion in history and the aftermath that brought America one step closer to civil war—newly reissued to include the text of the original 1831 court document ""The Confessions of Nat Turner""The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master, and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War. Stephen B. Oates, the celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., presents a gripping and insightful narrative of the rebellion—the complex, gifted, and driven man who led it, the social conditions that produced it, and the legacy it left. A classic, here is the dramatic re-creation of the turbulent period that marked a crucial turning point in America's history.

About Stephen B. Oates

Stephen B. Oates (1936-2021) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stewart on January 24, 2012

The Fires of Jubilee is an easy to read but rather unsatisfactory account of the extraordinary slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831. While the author is clearly attempting to be objective he nonetheless suffers from all the usual blind spots and prejudices you'd expect from a libera......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on July 29, 2015

Nat Turner is a name unlikely to stir the imagination of most Americans. Unless one is coming fresh from a US History course, Turner tends to get lost in the muddle of early America. I find only some of my students have heard of him; seldom can any of them tell me what he did. Turner was a slave in......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa on November 09, 2024

4.5 ⭐️ did not think i would like this book but they said many things that were very much “😱” or “😞”. but i was actually invested in this book so much… and ik it’s a school book but yeah…......more

Goodreads review by lifelongreader on February 28, 2018

A must read to truly understand American History and its relationship with race. (3.7/4)......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on December 09, 2014

Book Information: The genre of this book is historical non-fiction and the reading level is tenth-twelveth grade. Summary: Nat Turner was born into slavery on October 2, 1800 (Fires of Jubilee, p. 11). As he grew older, he began to exhibit great knowledge of events that had happened before he was born......more

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